Word: casting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...information of the method by which he does the testing (TIME, April 22): It is told of the old days in England that one of the three officers in every community-the other two were the high bailiff and 'he low bailiff-was the ale tester. Posterity has cast a blot on the 'scutcheon of that worthy by corrupting his honored name into "ale taster." But testing was his office; tasting may have been his recreation. The ale tester was supposed to array himself in leathern breeches and proceed to examine the village supply of home brew...
...ancient section of our city. We have contributed many prominent, men to the life of this country, all of whom came from the humble homes which the Harvard Crimson criticizes, and it appears to me ill-becoming those who represent a rich and socially powerful institution to cast aspersion upon the decent people of East Boston whose struggles and ambitions should have the support of the Harvard Crimson, and not its vicious criticism." Boston Post...
Playing the game for the game's sake is a very worthy ideal, but competition is the spice of all sports and if something as ephemeral as a letter adds to the zest why seek to cast...
This year the voting was done on unsigned ballots. Each voter checked on the ballot the men of his class that he favored for election. Seven of the Junior ballots were unvalid compared to one of the 307 cast by the Class...
Wallace Russell Harper '30, of Ottumwa, Iowa, received the largest number of the votes cast by the Class of 1930 with 242 to his credit. The other successful Juniors in the order of their election are as follows: James Elmer Barrett '30, of Leomister; Guy Constant Holbrook Jr. '30, of 'Clifton; Francis Rene Galbraith Giddens '30 of Ottawa, Ontario; Gardner Lothrop Lewis Jr. '30 of Swampscott; Bernard Barnes '30, of New Hartford; and Arthur Lithgow Devens Jr. '30 of Boston...