Word: firm
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...alley, where he will find both physical exertion and the most delightfully fickle uncertainty. The alley resembles a relief map of the state of Nevada. The balls have little devils in them, and they skip and prance from upland to meadow, while the timid pins, across the divide, stand firm as a Central American army. At the noisy bouncing approach of the enemy, the timid pins, like a Central American army, shiver and fall. One can make a tolerable score without hitting a pin. Chance is everywhere: in the lop-sided balls, in the undulating alley, and in the gutters...
...chief engineer of the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, and later as chief engineer in the central district of the Edison General Electric Company. During this period, he designed, built and operated many of the largest electric railway and lighting plants of the country. As member of the firm of D. C. and William B. Jackson, Professor Jackson is now advising engineer and expert for several large corporations...
...Horace McFarland, secretary-treasurer of the J. Horace McFarland Company, Harrisburg, Pa., will deliver a lecture on "Printing as a Profession" in Emerson A this evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. McFarland is a master printer. His firm printed "Country Life in America" for several years, and is now printing "Suburban Life." He is also actively interested in civic reform, in which field he is a well-known lecturer...
...Horace McFarland, secretary-treasurer of the J. Horace McFarland Company, Harrisburg, Pa., will deliver a lecture on "Printing as a Profession" in Emerson A tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, under auspices of the Graduate School of Business Administration. Mr. McFarland is a master printer. His firm printed "Country Life in America" for several years, and is now printing "Suburban Life...
...swimming team will meet Phillips Andover Academy at Andover this afternoon in its second meet. The work this season is mainly to ascertain the College interest in the revival of swimming and to put the sport on a firm basis. Candidates were first called out at a meeting on January 16, which was attended by about 75 men. Within two weeks, 90 men had reported and the squad was then cut down to 30. On February 5, the team defeated the Waltham Swimming Club by a score of 33 to 26 in its first meet. On February 16, the Sophomores...