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...Where did an $18,500 printing press fetch $41.93? (p.43...
...turn of the century the late Cyrus Hall McCormick was looking for a cashier for his reaper company. He sent an emissary to fetch George Ranney, 24, a teller in the Chicago branch of the Bank of Montreal. Said young Ranney: "If Mr. McCormick wants to see me. let him come over to the bank." So the great Cyrus, in his sideburns and full dignity, marched into the bank and took Teller Ranney away with him. In time Mr. Ranney became Harvester's financial expert, was given credit for Harvester's lucid financial statements, became (and still...
...Freshmen were also required to run errands for any of the Seniors, graduates, or undergraduates at any time except study hours and before 9 o'clock in the evening. The Freshman had not only to fetch and carry for the upperclassman who called upon him for that service, but he had to know the exact ranking of his seniors, as the neophyte could be taken from one upperclassman by another of higher position in the College, the Governors having all priority...
...have started in Alling's room on December 29, 1676, when Onosephoeus Stanley, presumably a friend but no in Harvard, "came in to his chamber, sometime in the forenoon and so continued there until 3 or 4 or ye clock in ye afternoon. During which time...they had cider fetch(ed) in by ...Ailing... as he judgeth in all about 3 qts. for which they paid 2d a quart." Barnard, the other Freshman, stopped in to see Alling and "found they had some rum, which they had been drinking of." Another pint was soon required and sent for "which...
...organized by her, scavenging was a jittery version of the old-fashioned treasure hunt. The contestants paired off in the East Foyer, received sealed envelopes listing bizarre objects which they were expected to fetch in an hour and one-half. At a gun's bark they bolted for the elevators and rushed out into the night to find the following items...