Word: yore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capital built at ancient Angora. Finally the President reported progress in his incessant strivings to "Westernize Turkey." Proudly he declared that 12,000 teachers are now instructing Turks how to write and read their language in Occidental ABC's, though with the same phonetics as of yore...
...partisanship of undergraduate newspapers reaches its climax in this double headed disavowal of campaign enthusiasm. Even the Democratic party of yore would find it hard to sanction such a magnificent conception of neutrality and the "kept us out of war" policy. Here at Harvard where the dry rot of indifference has left untouched a flourishing forest of undergraduate political interest, such an outburst of nalvole would have been the signal for indignant letters in numbers such as to clog the columns of the CRIMSON from now until election day. Admiration is due the courageous decision of the Yale debating team...
...went to the castle of Chilon by steam and row boat. We saw the gloomey dungeons where the prisoners of yore were kept. We saw Lord Byrons name. The place where the prisoners were kept the night before they were hung. The place where hung. The modern baracks and prisons. We saw the prison where Boulden was kept and the stone worn away by his footsteps...
...Federal Farm Board to administer this fund and it removes all restrictions from the President in naming this Board's members. Also, it makes the relief provisions applicable to all farm produce instead of only six "basic" commodities. But-and here the fight will arise as of yore-the bill retains, as an alternative method by which the Federal Farm Board would help market the surplus, the much-debated "equalization fee"-a percentage levied upon all producers of a crop in which there is a surplus, to be spent eking out a "fair price" for producers faced with...
...fashion that if the present state of conditions climatic persists much longer, we shall not only miss those courses we are and have been in hopes of attending, but may even sleep through an impending examination. As soon, however, as the spring sun gets back to its habits of yore, and the weather man recollects that it is no longer April, but close to the end of May, we shall once more be hot on the trail of an early morning education...