Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice. Confidence and restraint are gained by long work and experience. It is nervousness which becomes the chief enemy of the student fencer. A spirit of coolness, of relaxed tension, of unfettered judgment, must be attained by him who would succed. The man who is collected, firm, ready for an opportunity or opening, watching, playing with his opponent, steady of hand, and above all, master of himself, will always hold the upper hand. Add to these qualities, speed at the proper instant, alert facility to take advantage of the opponents' weak spots, an intuitive sense, which comes with practice...
...firm iron of the fourteenth line. An you please, Mr. Benet, no more of this. "Heavens and Earth!" "And shall I couple hell?" Sing us a thousand ballads! Drink...
...Little was Graduate Manager of the Harvard Union last year, and is given much of the credit for the establishment of the Union on its present firm basis. He is also an assistant in English at the University...
While in college, Mr. Lamont was President of the CRIMSON and took a prominent part in many other undergraduate activities. Upon graduation he became a reporter on the New York Tribune and later secretary and treasurer of the Bankers' Trust Company. Mr. Lamont has been a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company since 1911 and is now director of many large companies and corporations. He is also owner of the New York Evening Post and a trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and Smith College, while lately he has been joint chairman of the Harvard Endowment Fund...
After graduating in 1883, Mr. Moors took his A.M. a year later, and in 1915 had the degree of LL.D. conferred upon him. He is now the senior member of the brokerage firm of Moors and Cabot and a member of the Boston Finance Commission. Mr. Moors is also President of the Associated Charities of Boston; state director of the Collateral Loan Company; an ex-president of the Public School Association; and an associate of Radcliffe College. He spoke at the Union in October under the auspices of the Cox-Roosevelt Club of Harvard...