Word: checking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instinctively looking for something solid to lean on, he turned to his master reading list. With rapid, but controlled glances he searched for an oversight. The hunt was fruitless, though, for his check, counter-check system left no room for mistakes. The blame, clearly, lay with Miss Schroeder...
...child by each marriage. At her flamboyant services, surrounded by choirs, bell ringers and 80-piece xylophone bands, Aimee most often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held in check by her mother-business manager, "Ma" Kennedy, an ex-Salvation Army lassie. One May afternoon in 1926, at the very peak of her career, Aimee went swimming in the Pacific off Santa Monica-and disappeared...
...Corporation refused to accept a $1000 check he offered upon his 25th reunion in 1934 to establish a scholarship for a student to study in Germany...
...would seem to me that to be a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers is a great honor and great responsibility and a careful check of anyone nominated should be made...
...million objects. For this, as well as all its other special functions--publications, expeditions, research, much new equipment--the Museum has an annual budget of $85,000. As a money-saving device, it asks professors who visit the Museum to study parts of its collection in order to check the catalogue to see that it is complete and up-to-date on their special areas of interest...