Word: exactments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only other members are the Ritzes, gives them $80,000 he is carrying as pocket money, commissions them to save the job of luckless Coach O'Hara (Fred Stone). In proper raccoons, courtesy of their protege, they buy off the mercenary dean with promises of a new gymnasium, exact promises of football careers for themselves and friend, continued employment for Coach O'Hara. Pendleton becomes the star back, winning games virtually singlehanded, only adverse scores being when the Ritzes play. On the eve of the Midwestern game, the rival coach discovers Pendleton had played football professionally...
...Toledo Museum is housed in a long building of white marble and considerable magnificence on Monroe Street in the residential part of town. Its severely Hellenic design is carried through to the two new wings and the auditorium, which is called the "peristyle" and is a fairly exact reproduction of a Greek outdoor theatre. Detroit's late symphony conductor. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, thought its acoustics unsurpassed in the U. S.. and Theatre Critic fohn Mason Brown shared the transports of classical scholars when it was opened in 1933. The Museum's collection is as exceptional as its building...
...Exact boundary of Boise is the centre of Reserve Street. From engines and a pump wagon, parked on the city's side of the street, the firemen called out advice to scores of non-professional fire fighters who were doing their best to fight the growing conflagration on the other side. Only animals in the Jacobs barns were seven saddle horses, valued at from $1,000 to $3,000 each, including a five-gaited, Kentucky-bred stallion named Lady's Man which was a favorite mount of Senator William E. Borah. Bystanders appealed for axes to help...
...wavering line running in a southwesterly direction from Cape Gracias a Dios on the Caribbean to the Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific divides the two Central American Republics of Honduras and Nicaragua. The exact position of this line has been the cause of dispute for many years. Under a treaty signed in 1894, the Government of Spain was called in to arbitrate. The decision awarded in 1906 was rejected by Nicaragua because of "irregularities in procedure." A conference in Washington in 1918 was equally fruitless...
...Exact opposite of most presidents who quarrel with their trustees, hard-fisted Tyler Dennett claimed they were wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior...