Word: fours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard's combined wrestling teams qualified nine men in the preliminaries of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament held at Hemenway Gymnasium last night. Five of these were from the University team while the other four qualified in the Freshman division...
...admitted to the bar and has been held one of the leading members. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University from 1922 to 1928, and has given almost twenty years to the service of the Commonwealth: was Speaker of the House for four years: and in 1928 was the Republican nominee for United States Senator, to be defeated by his Democratic opponent. At the last Republican convention, in Kansas City, he distinguished himself further as secretary of the committee on credentials, and his speech offering Alvan T. Fuller as a vice-presidential possibility...
...behind the lines to the real front, and supply the story with a satisfactory climax. Thus, the work is complete, not composed at an oblique angle; its scenes dramatic, not melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest comrades; it's only when he has particular cause, and can think somewhat coolly, that he grows patriotic. The greatest moments are his alone. So the broad, dispassioned, epic away is missing. The tragedy of a nation is not here, nor does it need to be. The personal narrative...
...right in Africa He knows things which would make the imperialists of every country blush with shame. Descendant of Said Kafu and a long line of distinguished Negro merchants and sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more worth while...
...purchasing department has been developed during the last dozen years, due primarily to four things. First, the desirability of getting under one head all the various and sometimes competing functions which have to do with the assembling of materials either for use in process or for consumption incidental to the business: second, to provide the most efficient method of securing proper materials, having in mind economy, quality, delivery, and service third, the keeping in touch with markets of various products which are frequently purchased, and finally, to provide a certain amount of sales resistance in opposition to the professional salesman...