Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . There are two systems in vogue for handling the referendums of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Some organizations send out ballots to each and every member of their local organization. This gives an excellent cross section of the opinion in that community. The other method and the one used by our organization is just as effective. Our committee on National Affairs makes a thorough study of the referundum, taking into consideration the arguments both pro and con. Their resolution is then placed before the Board of Directors made up of 21 leading men in the community...
...which ferreted out these outrageous appellations will have gained for themselves the immortality which was not theirs this time. Theirs will be the glory of giving to a breathless and expectant world that menace of the 1940's which will have succeeded to the throne once occupied by the Cross-Word Puzzle and the Ask Me Another book...
...cross-country captain for 1928 will be elected at a meeting of the harrier lettermen in Notman's studio on Monday. All men who won their "H" in this sport should be at the studio promptly at 2 o'clock on that day for the team picture and ballot...
...last week the ever present discussion of the worth of a liberal college education has taken an up-curve. And as usual, the debate has been marked by the need of definition, and by the fact that the participants are talking at cross purposes. Much publicity was given the statement of Messrs. Barron and Babson that "New England colleges were failures" because they did not contribute to the prosperity of that section of the country. Taking this as an indictment of education, the pedagogic replies were numerous; of which the address at the University Club in Boston by President Hopkins...
Ships. For the first time in 12 years all cross channel ships and airplanes had to suspend service for some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...