Word: custom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard's late great President Charles William Eliot once had a plan for a Harvard School of Political Science & Administration. As was his custom, he threw the plan first into the Faculty for discussion, then into the Corporation for action. By the time those two bodies got through with it in 1908, Eliot's proposed training ground for public servants had been completely changed into a Graduate School of Business Administration. Most Harvardmen felt then that the nation's service offered too few opportunities for college-trained men, thought that they could better bend their efforts toward...
...give them at least temporary relief from Roosevelt by announcing that Settlement Day is postponed for one year. Until very recently the Nanking Government's prestige was far too low for chambers of commerce to dream of asking Generalissimo Chiang to proclaim relief from an old Chinese custom made intolerable by the New Deal...
...swank Somerset Hills (N. J.) golf club. His British uncle, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, last year's challenger for the America's Cup, taught him to fly, but up until two years ago he preferred to streak across the New Jersey flats in a custom-built Mercedes-Benz. Today the Mercedes-Benz is in the barn and Mr. Grubb drives a Plymouth. Horseman, clubman, he is one of Wall Street's best-dressed brokers...
...copied the engineering change his radical body made possible-engines forward over the front axle. Not all of Mr. Chrysler's cars were Airflows but investment in dies and tools was enormous. So this year he continued the Airflow but added a more conventional Airstream. The Imperial and Custom Imperial have overdrive as standard equipment...
Duesenbsrg, a Cord product, was back at the Show after a four-year absence with two monster-hooded custom jobs selling...