Word: aids
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tilden, Hunter, Lott, and Chandler, will make up this country's Davis Cup team, Coach Cowles believes. Tilden and Hunter would play in the doubles together, and Lott would aid Tilden in the singles. Chandler is the problem in the make-up of this year's team, but, if he can return to the form he displayed two years ago. Coach Cowles thinks that he will have no trouble in making the team. When questioned as to the chances of Hennessey, Van Ryan, Jones and Doeg, Coach Cowles shook his head, and said that all played a good game...
...assured from the first by that of its Belgian founder, M. Georges Nagelmackers of Brussels and Liege. He had visited the U. S. in the '60s and confessed himself "frappe" (struck) by "les services de wagons-lits" already operating there. Returning to Belgium, he enlisted the financial aid of such potent backers as the late King Leopold II (of Belgian Congo infamy) and founded the original Wagons-Lits firm in 1873. Previously he had begun and he continued all his life negotiations with the states of Europe, touching the installation and operation on their lines of his sleeping cars...
...become a truism to speak of America as the wealthiest nation in the world. But the philanthropic disposal of that wealth, in part at least, has taken place in many lands and for many humanitarian purposes. Funds have been organized to aid the cause of world peace and international amity; others, such as the recent bequest for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, have been put at the service of cultural relationships. Still other awards promote American ideals and business standards...
...debate on a subject to be drawn from contemporary French politics, the trials to be conducted in English. The administration for awarding the prize is in the hands of the French Department of the University, which under the terms of the competition is at liberty to call in the aid of other instructors...
...members of the History Department, in costume, reenacting the glorious deeds of the past. Consider, for instance, the possibilities of staging the Defenestration of Prague from Memorial Hall's most lofty window with some Ph.D. candidate in the featured role. Or the History 3 section men might, with the aid of the Department of Zoology and the Military Science staff, put on a Roman holiday in the Stadium with the chairman of the Department occupying the imperial loge in Section 18, the Sargent and Radcliffe girls cast as Vestal Virgins in Section 23, and the members of the course, betoga...