Word: closes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the niceties of the profession are to be found nowhere to better advantage than in the function of timekeeper. Too frequent calling of the hour has a tendency to create unfortunate emotional situations in the examinees and a mere announcement as the period draws to a close that "this examination will close in five minutes" is a brutality of which every one will admit the danger...
Ticket applications for the crew races with Yale at New London on June 21 and for the baseball game against the Blue scheduled for June 19 in Cambridge will close at 5 o'clock tomorrow, according to an announcement made last night by C. F. Getchell, general manager of the Athletic Association...
...declared the winner by a close decision, was Eligio Sardinias, a young Cuban-born Negro with big round eyes, long arms, an antlike waist and the inadequate nickname of Kid Chocolate. Kid Licorice would suit him better. When he entered the U. S. a few months ago, he had no fame, although in Havana he had won 100 amateur bouts and knocked out 46 of his spidery opponents. In Manhattan his first professional rewards were coffee and frijoles given to him by informal fighting clubs in out of the way places. Now he has more silk shirts than...
...when, last week, Consolidated Automatic Merchandising Corp.-better known as Cameo-arranged for wide distribution of Cameo automatic talking vending machines throughout the United Kingdom, it was really from Dora that these subhuman salesmen sprung. For Dora's decree made many a public house, cafe and tobacconist close during certain afternoon hours and also close early at night. Ingenious, tradesmen put slot machines on their doors. Thus, while legally closed, they continued to dispense candy, chewing gum, cigarets, etc. Meanwhile the slot machines, at first an emergency measure, gained so strong a hold upon the British favor that their...
...awkward monkey wrenches. At least he is determined that the younger generation shall not follow in these same steps and has vigorously exhorted the graduating class at the Tech to change their collars every evening, presumably to rid themselves of the stains of honest toll acquired from too close contact with the machine age during...