Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inasmuch as Feinstein's advertisement followed the Harvard one he was questioned, but denied any knowledge of the deed. The Lampoon was next considered but a telegram from the Harvard CRIMSON said that they knew nothing whatsoever about the whole business. --Yale News...
...Roman Emperor Maximianus commanded an officer named Victor, a convert to Christianity, to burn incense to Jupiter. Victor not only refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his right foot was chopped off before he was executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet...
...Contest Board, by means of family proxies Mr. Dodge won a vote approving superchargers for next year's Gold Cup race at Lake George, N. Y., over the bitter protest of other contestants. Last week A. P. B. A. was sympathetic but firm. The Gold Cup's deed of gift forbids major changes in contest rules after a challenge has been filed. But A. P. B. A. voted to approve superchargers for 1935. Since Mr. Dodge had hoped to use them against supercharged French and Italian boats in the first international regatta next March, to be held...
...were entertained by the members of the Lampoon board at a dinner given for them. After many after dinner speeches, suddenly one of the editors of the Harvard publication embarked on the subject of the stolen fence. He said that they were all very sorry to hear of the deed and had set their ace of detectives on the trail of the evildoers. Mr. Bob Lampoon himself set out after the perpetrators of the crime and at last was rewarded with success. With a quick flourish of the wrist, he moved back the table cover and showed underneath, the missing...
...Association are understood to support the project, which if successful, will improve materially the playing conditions on Soldiers Field. President Conant and Arthur L. Endicott '94, Comptroller of the University, have been approached and both are in favor of the plan, providing that no legal flaws in the Higginson deed to Soldiers Field develop to prevent altering its shape...