Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinions on things about which he could not possibly know anything!' '' Francis Ouimet: " Mayor Curley of Boston presented me with a black box containing a silver and gilt key to the city, in recognition of my service as a golfer on the Walker Cup (earn in England." Thomas Gibbons, challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing-championship: "Mayor Nelson of St. Paul gave me a good luck token before my departure for Shelby, Mont. It was the left hind foot of a buck rabbit shot in a cemetery at midnight under a full moon...
...they should use during the summer in practicing punts, drop kicks, and placements, Mr. Mahan emphasized particularly the correct holding of the ball and the steps taken before the kick. The men who reported at the meeting were G. D. Braden '25, M. A. Cheek '26, Roger Doherty '25, Earn Evans 2E.S., J. J. Lee '24, K. S. Pfaffmann '24, and L. L. Robb...
There has been some discussion recently as to the method of election to Phi Beta Kappa and it has been urged that the present and traditional method be changed in order to elect "promising" or "original" men whose marks are not good enough to earn the distinction. This proposed method was tried at Yale about twenty years ago and proved a complete failure. It was abandoned and the old order restored. There are enough extra-curriculum activities at Yale already and the rewards for success in them are sufficiently alluring so that it seems hardly advisable to ask Phi Beta...
Forced to earn her own living when she was very young, Mrs. Rinehart became a nurse. In the hospital she met Dr. Rinehart; she was married at nineteen. It was not until after her three sons were born that she started writing. Her first efforts were children's poems, which, she tells you, were exceedingly bad. Then she wrote short stories with some success. Her first novel, The Circular Staircase, which later became The Bat, was a great success, and from that time her progress has been steady. She has never written a failure. That is largely because...
...Students in this course, lke the professional interne, accomplish", Mr. Frederick concluded, "three things at once: they earn a respectable living, they receive instruction in the principles of their profession, and they obtain much practical experience...