Word: getting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debating season will get under way tomorrow night when the officials of the Harvard Debating Council call together prospective candidates in a place to be announced. All speakers who intend to try out for the team will come to the meeting prepared to give a five-minute talk on either side of the question of censorship, in any one of its numerous aspects...
...Get more fun out of life!" he said to his hearers. He recounted experiences in his own life that have furnished him with happiness, and closed with the sentences...
Nonetheless cautious anonymity revealed that the operators took their account books to the conferences. Government accountants studied them during the fortnight, calling in the operators occasionally. They were impatient to get back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government...
...that story spreads, boys, I'm ruined. There are a lot of other ashmen in Portland, don't forget. Competition in this business is terrible. Once my customers get the notion I'm rich they'll give all their trade to my rivals. . . . Who knows what kind of a millionaire I'll make? I don't even know if I'll like it. I've never had any experience being rich. . . . Yep, it's all true enough, but I haven't got any fingers on the cash...
Clarence Hungerford Mackay, now inactive telegraph, telephone, wireless and radio capitalist, knowing well that the subordinate workers of vast organizations rarely get public praise, established the Clarence H. Mackay Trophy to be given to the Army pilot who performs the most meritorious flight service of any one year. During recent months Secretary of War James William Good has been scanning the 1928 records of Army men. Last week he decided to award the trophy to Lieut. Harry A. Sutton of the Army Air Corps Reserve, who with "quiet bravery, intelligence, skill and spirit" tested out the spinning characteristics of several...