Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University chess team, led by F. R. Chevalier '29, playing first board, will engage in a battle of wits tonight against the Yale aggregation, in one of the several contests this week end between the Crimson and the Blue...
...annual meeting of the directors of the College Entrance Examination Board this month was productive of two conclusions that evoke interest in those who are not too busy practising on the high burdles to remember the low ones. For the first time in its career the treasury of the Board shows a deficit, due to the increased cost of examination. The fee remains $10, while the cost per candidate of examination has risen from $7.98 to $11.11. The deficit is to be made up by the sale of the Board's publications, a possible increase in the fee, and most...
...accordance with this theory Constance determines to go to work, and earn enough to pay her board and lodging, and so have no obligations toward her husband. This she does, and at the end of the play she hands John a cheque for a thousand pounds, and tells him that she is going off for a six weeks' holiday with another man, who has loved her for fifteen years...
...Chicago Board of Education entered their high-ceilinged meeting room. President J. Lewis Coath, melancholy-looking, thin-lipped, sat down on his dias, his subordinates at their desks facing him. In their impassiveness they resembled Indians at a pow-wow with white men. Superintendent Wm. McAndrew, on trial for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12 et seq.), looked at them with contempt. Another of his many intermittent hearings was about to commence...
...this time have not been argued. Instead the time has been taken up by trivial and irrelevant matters, with the evident intention of prolonging the trial until the Superintendent's term expires in February. "In the meantime Chicago has no Superintendent of Schools. The President of the Board has usurped the Superintendent's powers, and the schools are being run without the professional direction which the law requires." Shrewd, they added a paragraph which their rambunctious Mayor William Hale Thompson would understand: "We have become convinced that the present situation is a real crisis. It concerns a million...