Word: custom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even the blood relationship of brothers is as nothing compared to the friendship of 'Bonfils and Tammen,' to link your names in the fashion it has become the custom to do the country over...
Students who are looking forward to the revival of an old custom in the University will soon have their wishes gratified, as the new Harvard-dinner plates are nearly ready, and are expected to arrive in this country sometime in March. Approximately 3600 dozen plates out of the original order for 4000 dozen have already been sold. Orders are still being received for the some three or four hundred dozen remaining...
...ocean steamers coming right up to it from Galveston Bay, 50 miles away, and 17 railroads heading in from all directions. Jesse Holman Jones's hotel, the Rice, will doubtless be headquarters. Smaller hotels such as the Lamar and Warwick, will take in overflow and there is an old custom in Texas, which Houstonians practice specially, of throwing open private homes when the city is host to some...
...Angeles posted $10,000 for a Golf Tournament as is the annual custom, and drew famed, formidable golfers. At Miami, Fla., the prize totalled $3,000, but the field was almost as formidable. MacDonald Smith, Long Island professional, won in the West with rounds of 74, 70, 69, 71; in the South Gene Sarazen was paid first prize for shooting...
...custom, on the increase for the past few decades, of making conditional gifts to educational and other institutions, is on the whole sound. Such gifts act as a "starter" and give both possible future donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. gifts made conditional to the raising of further donors and those working to raise funds an additional incentive. Gifts made conditional to the raising of further funds also guard the donor against the danger, proved in the past to be very real, of having his money spent on a basement or foundation, the rest...