Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years I've built shells for the University," said old Bill Lutz to a Crimson reporter yesterday as he stepped back and eyed the graceful lines of a new "light" taking shape under his skilled hands. Bill has long been an institution to Harvard rowing men who have raced up and down the Charles in his crafts...
...built the first cedar shell in America," continued Bill modestly. "It was the boat in which Harvard rowed against Yale in the first regatta between the two Universities. That was about 40 years back, in a little shop near the old Harvard Boathouse before I worked for the College. Those were the days of great races, when the crews used to pose for their pictures with a bunch of daisies in the coxwain's hands...
...pending bill is adopted, Kansas will still prohibit the sale of cigarets to minors, as does many another state...
...evenings, perhaps, a game of dominoes. No better game. . . . About half-past nine a band was sure to come round. All the German street bands in the Bronx called at George Ehret's house. He would send the butler down with a glass of beer and a dollar bill for every man. The butler grumbled because he knew the tricks of these foxes of bandsmen. "The Blue Danube" at nine o'clock. A glass of beer and a dollar bill. Then around the block. At half past nine, "Die Wacht am Rhein." Another bill, another glass. Upstairs, with...
...problems of immigration has at last received official attention and seems likely of solution. The Stobbs bill now before the House of Representatives aims to avoid in future some of the cases of individual hardship that have been incurred from time to time under the hard and fast rulings necessary to control the rush of foreigners to this country. One of the most recent instances of the sort was the admission of an alien whose permits were satisfactory while his wife, American born, was detained by officials under a technically. The Stobbs proposal purposes to deal with difficult situations...