Word: deale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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. Yes and then have a good deal left. I'll say it's a great game, but believe me you can't get much rest. The last few years that I have been in it have been plenty full of all kinds of excitement. They never really got me but they've come pretty close sometimes. Look...
...seems to me that Harvard can profit materially by the experience of her parent university, both as to what might be imitated and what avoided. On the one hand, if the Houses develop fourth, fifth, and even more teams in various sports, as is to be hoped, a great deal of coaching can certainly be done by Seniors and Juniors. On the other, however, I more than doubt the wisdom of placing complete control of House athletics in the hands of the several captains. Inevitable disagreements with the captain's general policy and wide spread disapproval of patently faulty judgment...
...storeroom attendants in the Chemical Laboratories are notorious for their inefficiency and discourtesy. It is bad enough to have to deal with these unpleasant people, but the absence of the smile may be forgiven if the required materials are promptly available. Too often they are not. And most of these sins of omission may be traced directly to the laziness or the stupidity of the men in charge of the supplies. The autocratic and abused power of the janitorial staff forces even instructors to accept their dirty dishware with unbecoming fear and trembling...
Died. Mrs. Julia Barnett Rice, 69, founder of the Anti-Noise Society of America, onetime President of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises, originator of "Safe & Sane" Independence Days; at Deal, N. J. Annoyed by toots of Hudson River tugs, she sound-proofed her home on Riverside Drive, Manhattan...
...When the U. S. took the Islands over from Spain, William Howard Taft had to negotiate a separate arrangement with the Church for its extensive "friar lands." settled by early Spanish brotherhoods. The U. S. paid the church $7,250,000 for 400,000 acres. By last week's deal, Archbishop of Manila regained 32,000 of these acres, plus improvements...