Word: due
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...varied and so managed that the students can choose the type they prefer. The realization of such a plan would allow each man to incorporate his own furniture with the preferable pieces provided by the College. Under this plan the House Plan atmosphere could be made more attractive due to the fact that it would be more personal and individual. This affords another means of averting the danger of standardization which could easily prove disastrous to a project so closely incorporated as the House Plan...
...understood that the present proposal of the required minimum is due to the dictation of the Bursar's office. This organization finds it impossible to operate the dining halls in any other fashion without losing money: Its decision must be taken as final since it has had thorough experience in this field...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...
Causes of Blindness are chiefly trachoma, venereal disease, babies' sore eyes (only three out of five eye infections at birth are due to gonococci), congenital defects, smallpox, glaucoma, accidents...
...exuberance displayed by Harvard supporters at the victory over Yale was due perhaps not so much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake...