Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...direct competition with the daily press. The Springfield Union did not report the game to the close, and yet the complete account in the CRIMSON was on sale before that of Union. The first copy of the CRIMSON came off the press twenty seconds from the time the last dispatch was received. In spite of Harvard's defeat, and poor service accorded the CRIMSON by Springfield news agents, so many thousands of copies were sold that, including money from advertisements, the heavy expenses of the extra were cleared...
...Annexation is easy, honorable, and advantageous. - (a) A recognized government asks it: Dispatch of Stevens, Trib. Jan. 29, 1893. - (b) No foreign power has protested. - (c) The course of the United States has been honorable throughout: Trib. Feb. 1, 1893; Trib. Feb. 4, 1893; Pres. Harrison's message in Trib. Feb. 17, 1893. - (d) Annexation of great material advantage: Trib. Jan. 30, 1893, Feb. 3, 1893; (Mott-Smith) - (e) A military and naval necessity: Trib...
...best of condition. Four records were broken, a new record was established, and nearly all of the events were closely contested. The audience was quite large, numbering over 800, and was very patient whenever any waits occured. On the whole the meeting was conducted with great dispatch, the last event being finished by five o'clock. Thirteen schools succeed in winning a place, and the point won by each were as follows...
...Parliamentary rules are meant to facilitate public business. - (a) By preserving order. - (b) By protecting the rights of the majority as well as of the minority. - (c) By preventing waste of time. - (d) By enabling the legislative body to take up and dispatch business in order of its importance...
...curious fact was noticed during the Harvard-Yale game, according to a dispatch from New Haven to a New York paper: Just before Yale made her second touch down an engine on the Connecticut River road which stood on a siding near the grounds blew out an immense ring of smoke. It floated over the field a perfect O. As it sailed over the Harvard eleven Yale scored the touch down, and as McClung kicked the goal the ring gradually broke and spread into a distant Yover the Yale team...