Word: custom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...late years the older buildings have been set apart for the senior class, with the idea of creating an annual custom; and each year the plan has met with a more and more ready acceptance, until last spring there were so many applications that everyone could not be accomodated in the five designated buildings. The tradition has been built up, and in the process all the arguments have been exhausted--save that of success. The dormitories themselves have been restored, until it would seem that the only remaining objection is the persistent and premature college bell, which lingers tenaciously...
...Foreign Relations. Special difficulties were encountered in restoring the shattered finances of the state, caused by excessive borrowing from other countries. It was only at the urgent request of France, England, and Germany that the United States assumed charge of the finances, for these powers threatened to seize the custom houses of Santo Domingo if the interest on the loans was, not paid immediately...
...critical point of view. The series is provided for by the Dowse Institute which was established for this purpose. Due to the Great War, the fund during the past few years was given to charity, but now, with that emergency past, the trustees of the Institute are perpetuating the custom...
...accordance with the custom of past years, the Crimson Printing Company is issuing calendars for the coming year, which resemble very closely those put out for the year 1922. The new calendars are now ready for distribution, and may be obtained free of charge at the Crimson Printing Company...
...custom never returned. That was the Christmas box of the English poor. Before the Reformation every poor apprentice, journeyman, pardoner, and begging friar had his Christmas box, and into it the merry Englanders deposited their alms. Then on Christmas Eve, when the box had got full and heavy, the poor apprentice and his like would break the box open and thereupon have a jolly Christmas. Only the tightest Scrooge refused its invitation, and always was he followed by six months of bad luck...