Word: account
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven Coaches Farrell of Harvard and Connors of Yale got together and selected the team which will represent the two colleges in the Oxford-Cambridge meet on July 13 in the Stadium. The work of the respective teams against each other and against their other opponents was taken into account in picking the two entries for each event and several Harvard Freshmen were added to the list as well...
Sirs: In your issue of May 6, page 18, you say regarding the trial of Mary Ware Dennett: ''John Cowan, one of the jurors, was later interviewed by a reporter. He gave the following account of what took place: the first ballot was 8-4 for conviction, the second 9-3, the third 10-2. At that point a court attendant warned the jurors it was after 5 p. m. A fourth ballot was quickly taken: 12-0 'guilty...
When TIME errs, the world demurs but TIME and old-TIMERS profit by the misthinks or mistakes. Let none therefore mistake me for a TIME naggler in correcting TIME'S adequate account of Manhattan's Architectural League Exhibition. The small mistake appears in TIME'S reference to "small" Harvey Wiley Corbett, noted for his tall self and tall towers. Lofty-spire-and-pediment-building Corbett stands well over six feet on the bare foot...
...mass of sensational allegations ranging from subornation of murder to "friskiness with a woman on a settee" at a New Orleans studio party, the House had reduced its formal charges against Long to eight. These, upon which the Senate never passed, included attempted bribing of legislators, failure to account for State funds, intimidation of the Press, and general incompetency...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...