Word: behalf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sessions will be held in Room 110, Pierce Hall, the Harvard Engineering School. Registration will begin at 9 o'clock Friday morning. Meetings will be held all day Friday, and on Saturday morning. President Lowell will welcome the members on behalf of Harvard; Harry E. Clifford, Dean of the Engineering School, will follow with announcements about the sessions. At 8 o'clock on Friday, following an informal dinner in the Faculty Club, President K.T. Compton, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will lecture on "The Distribution of Electricity in Molecules...
...well-to-do and a débutante, a young woman who knows members willing to write letters in her behalf may be admitted to the Junior League. Last week the Junior League voted, through the Junior League Magazine's poll, 8,021-to-397 against the 18th Amendment. But the Association of Junior-Leagues of America, Inc. (23,300 members) never goes on record officially in any political question. Commented Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, national chairman of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform: "The result of the poll is one of the most telling blows...
...Herr made a brief speech on behalf of the galleries, promised that as soon as he had finished swabbing, Susanna would return...
...colorful array some two blocks long. After a session of enthusiasiastic cheering about the towering bonfire, the crowd gathered around the speakers' platform where E.S. Judd '32, football manager, introduced Capt. Stan Yudicky, veteran end, who was greeted by tremendous applause. He gave a short talk in behalf of the players...
...Dewart had come, on behalf of the late publisher Frank A. Munsey, to buy the News for $340,000. At Widow Wood's insistence he had brought currency, new $1,000 bills. She loved to hoard and fondle large currency. (Her husband used to give her half of his winnings from the gaming tables of the Manhattan Club and Saratoga, as much as $75,000 at a time.) One by one, Mr. Dewart handed each bill to Mrs. Wood who examined it minutely, passed it for further scrutiny to her sister, Miss Mary E. Mayfield, to her daughter Emma...