Word: elie
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be learned. no more action has been taken concerning the possibility of the dial exchange of this vicinity being named "ELI," the abbreviation of "Eliot." High officials working on the new building stated they were unaware that the exchange was to be named "Eliot." but they reserved further comment...
Plans by the Telephone company to force all Harvard men to dial "ELI" came to light yesterday with the news that a new exchange is to be formed covering the vicinity of Harvard Square. Since the exchange will be designated "Eliot" in honor of the late President Eliot, and since a dial system will probably be installed in the near future, the first three letters of the word will be used...
Unquestionably the magnificent new Eli schedule is a direct result of the reputed $100,000 odd deficit which occurred in this year's athletic budget. Only in this way can such a top heavy exploitation of football be accounted...
...their success in Cambridge. It is not an easy question to answer, but I feel that Cowles' outfit will come out on top. The loss to Princeton does not prove a great deal, and the team, in its regular line-up, will have several advantages over the sons of Eli. They will be playing in home courts; they have been training for this climax of the season, and have thereby aroused a spirit of competition which, however the English choose to look at it, has a great deal to do with winning; they have been playing regularly against--experienced...
...expert was Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, who has labored in India 25 years, whose Christ of the Indian Road is one of the best known evangelical works of modern times. Dr. Jones counts Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore among his friends; Indians call him Rishi (Holy Sage). Christian Modernists and Fundamentalists have both claimed Dr. Jones. The Methodist Episcopal Church thrice offered him bishoprics, but his only allegiance is to its Board of Foreign Missions...