Word: dayes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Incidentally, you'd be interested in a swell story I heard the other day about a trial out in New Jersey. This fellow was up on a charge of selling beer. The defense was that it wasn't more than one half percent and they'd leave it to the jury to decide. The jury took the whole batch of beer, about 50 bottles or so into the jury room. About three hours later they came out well plastered, and damned if they didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those...
...Well, I guess I got to be running. Things ought to be getting busier any minute now. Oh, by the way, do you know -- -- who lives over in -- Hall. I thought you did; well just between the four of us, I'll tell you something I heard the other day. I heard he was in the business. I'd like to know if it's so because I'd like to sell to him. I could make him a pretty good proposition. Is there anything in it for you fellows? Say, you could earn your way through college easy...
Ground for Harvard's indoor, athletic plant was broken on the required day and the bulky walls have risen. Throughout the construction of the plant, "Alumnus Aquaticus" and "Anonymous Aquaticus" have carried on steady correspondence with Mr. Bingham, the while maintaining complete anonymity. Letters have been forwarded through the two New York banks in which the runds have been deposited; a steady stream of criticism and suggestion has been forth-coming on every architectural detail. And still Mr. Bingham, try as he may is unable to establish the identity of the two Harvard benefactors. A certain similarity in the letters...
...prove anything on a basis of comparative scores. What is probably the weakest college team in the whole country, Delaware, was taken as a starter in a little laboratory experiment the other day. Delaware has lost six games and tied one out of seven attempts and has succeeded in counting only two touchdowns all told. If you can find a worse record, why perform your own test and prove the above thesis even more conclusively...
There is something about this Yale game week-end that seems not quite like anything else, unless it be a peculiar edition of New Year's Eve and New Year's Day brought out in the fall for the convenience of this weary adventurer. To blow the clouds away, this is rather a day of reckoning, of resolve, and of--yes--rejoicing...