Word: comer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Usher '04, Associate Professor of Economics at the University, another new-comer to the Department of University Extension, will give a course on the "Commercial and Industrial History of the United States", with primary emphasis on the period since 1840. In the same department Matrin Shugrue, associate professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tutor in Economics at the University, will give for the first time a course on "Money and Banking...
Lounging about the tool-house, like their near relations who sweep circus rings between acts, the Oakmont gangsters watched early arrivals take trial gouges here and there in the 6,860-yard course. An early comer was George Von Elm of Los Angeles, runner-up last year at the Merion Cricket Club (Philadelphia) to Champion Bobby Jones. Deliberation writ upon his countenance and grim revenge, Von Elm played four rounds, including a 72 with a 7 in it, then took Mrs. Von Elm over to Manhattan where he bided his hour...
...which represents 8,000 cab-operators. Reports were recited of how cabmen, roused to fury by the cards, conversed in doorways, gathered in angry knots near every cabstand questioning the legality of the order, searching the Police Commissioner's legal right to force citizens to suggest to every comer what they might be. These cabmen, said reports, were pointing out that if every person were compelled to wear a placard proclaiming what he might be, college presidents, holy fathers, merchants, doctors and respected burghers would go about, perforce, with such signs as: HE MAY BE A CLEPTOMANIAC...
...come down to the present time, is the first copy of "Fair Harvard", probably the most widely known of the University's present songs. The sheet bears the date of September, 1836, and the inscription that the words were "harmonized for the annual festival of Harvard College by D. Comer and written by the Reverend Samuel Gilman '11". This copy also throws considerable light upon the origin of the tune which has for some time been in doubt. It is commonly believed that it is of Irish origin because it is included by Moore among his "Irish Melodies", with...
...Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight, or of entering into transcontinental railroading as a late comer. It assumed the later alternative and, in 1913, assumed the liabilities of the Puget Sound extension, after having advanced $155,000,000 to construct...