Word: availing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberal Club will station men in Sever Hall today and Monday to supervise the signing of the petition by all students who wish to avail themselves of this opportunity to express their disapproval of the proposed innovation. The Club will also be glad to accept the services of any volunteers who will circulate the petition around the University...
Last week a man who kept his promise died in Baltimore. That promise-and the course of nature-had made him obscure. He was Joseph R. Wilson, younger brother of the late Woodrow Wilson. When big brother became President, little brother agreed not to seek political employment. Without avail, friends of the family urged that Joseph be appointed secretary of the Senate or Postmaster at Nashville, Tenn. Joseph, onetime city editor of the Nashville Banner, even refused to act as Washington correspondent for several newspapers. He died at the age of 59-a successful manager for the Maryland Casualty...
...Weld Club, and to recommend to the Corporation the necessary appropriation of athletic funds, if such participation seemed desirable. The result of a questionnaire sent out on January 25 to 1145 members of all departments of the University, including the instruction staff, indicated that fully 1100 men would avail themselves of golf privileges, if they are offered. A larger percentage of the Law, Business, and Medical Schools than of the undergraduate department expressed interest in the proposition, the percentage of the departments being 9.5 per cent for the College, 17 per cent for the Law School, 25.5 per cent...
Public-spirited citizens starved their cats. Municipal officials starved cats in the village pounds ?and an army of ravenous felines was released upon Mousedom. To no avail. Krazy Kat himself (or herself)** could have been no more ineffectual. Dick Whittington's cat, who rid an African kingdom of rats at one fell swoop, might have prevailed, but not the cats of Kern County. Rocking with glee, the newsgatherers told stories about cowardly cats fleeing to cover, proud cats ignoring such easy prey, big-hearted cats adopting families of mice. The ever-colorful New York World carried a report...
Brussels Gathering of Great Avail...