Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Debating Council submitted three resolutions to the colleges to be visited. These resolutions met the approval of all the colleges, and it was decided that the Harvard team would support the alternative in all cases. The Harvard team will present its arguments after the English fashion, aiming to entertain as well as to inform. The first of the following resolutions was by far the most popular of those submitted for the approval of the colleges: Resolved, That Emancipated Woman is a Curse: Resolved. That Loyalty is the Curse of the American College: Resolved. That the Jury System should...
Members of the Gridiron Club are, nonetheless, reporters. They entertain their distinguished dinner guests (politicians, diplomats, businessmen) with horseplay...
Following these exercises the meeting will adjourn to the next room, where dinner will be served, and several interesting speakers, whose names have not yet been announced, will entertain the company...
...Italian civilization and of our people, and no historical analogies and no appeal to the traditions of other countries can justify them. The Roman Catholic Church has invariably and everywhere manifested its open and irrevocable opposition to such sports and it is backed by all people who entertain sentiments of gentility and Chris tian modesty...
Never during the campaign did Wall Street seriously entertain the possibility of Democratic victory. At the last, confidence in Republican success held the stockmarket firm, gave particular strength to public utility stocks. In the pre-election session, Commonwealth Power advanced 2½ points to a new high of 89⅜. Close behind were Columbia Gas, Consolidated Gas, American and foreign power...