Word: bidder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University has been the successful bidder among many institutions on a collection of minerals, regarded by scientists as one of the finest lots of specimens ever assembled by one man, representing the life-work of the late Elwood P. Hancock, of Burlington, N. J. Being a talented artist and cabinet carver by profession, he increased the attractiveness of the specimens by working out the natural crystals on the face...
...Senior Photograph Committee, when it is elected, is delegated the task of managing the Class Album in the most efficient manner possible. With this as its aim, the Committee has this year awarded the contract for photographs to the most satisfactory bidder. One of the conditions of the contract is that members of the class shall have their pictures for the Album taken by that bidder--namely, Notman's Studio. Consequently the solicitation sent out yesterday by an unsuccessful bidder should be disregarded. To patronize the rival studio for Senior Album pictures is to violate the contract made...
...Copper Pot" is a typical Advocate story, telling how husband and wife, each deciding on the same gift for the other, bid feverishly for a certain copper pot, and discover late in the proceedings the identity of the rival bidder...