Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Postage rates should not be raised-they should be canceled. Ordinary mail service within the U.S. should be as free as are the county agent's extremely valuable services to the farmer. If we are going on the theory that a service department of the Government should be operated for profit, then the farmer should be handsomely billed for the county agent's services, and a good stiff admission charge should be placed on all national parks and forests...
...royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel. By a stroke of good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle to get the key to the secret passageway "for the cause." Here the plot wanders into a labyrinth of evil subjects...
Ginn stood firm on his decision, however, and surrendered his post as class agent. Incidents like this are few, McCord points out, but nevertheless regrettable. In his work, he tries to ironout such difficulties before they attain a certain notoriety...
When Edwin Ginn '18 resigned as class agent because of the appointment of J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 as William James Lecturer for 1957, McCord spoke with him at some length about the problem and tried to convince Ginn that the one event such as a year's appointment should not make him forget all the other things which made him proud of Harvard...
...efficiency of the class agent has a great effect on the success of his class in relationship to the rest of the Fund. The Class of 1943 has only one agent, David Place, but nevertheless it has consistently led the Fund in the number-of-men-contributing category and in contributing percentage...