Word: holding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Ever since "Poor Richard," first commissioner from the thirteen Colonies to the Court at Versailles, attained notoriety because of his threadbare clothes and shabby overcoat, the position of American Ambassador has been most difficult to hold. Utterly inadequate financial support and political dabbling at home have made our diplomatic corps the laughing stock of Europe. Affairs have reached such a pass that only a man with a private fortune can undertake to represent worthily the Government of the United States...
...have played in the two tournaments which just ended, will be formed into two rank lists, one for squash, and one for squash racquets. A ladder tournament will be instituted among the members of each list in such a form that the leader in each list will hold his position only against continual competition. All men on the list, except the first ranking ten, can challenge at any time the man three places above him on the list. In the first ten any man can challenge the player next above him. Thus a continual competition results and a consequent instability...
...always been the plague spot of the world--in the last hundred years more germs of war and dissension have been bred in Turkey than anywhere else in the world. I know that other wars and greater wars are breeding in Turkey now and unless the United States takes hold immediately it will mean that we will once more have to throw our full armed forces into Europe to stop the conflicts that will certainly arise...
...certainly too bad that hockey cannot be played in front of an open fire, but the nature of the sport seems to preclude the idea. Doubtless the football team would prefer to practice in morrischairs; the swimming team would like to hold their races in bathtubs. Doubtless, but --. Harvard men do not always spend their time avoiding disagreeable work. Our much-envied string of victories over Yale and Princeton proves that there are some men in College who are not afraid of cold weather or hard, unpleasant, grinding practice...
Chicago is considered one of the most likely places in which to hold the Olympic games of 1924. Initial steps to have this effected are being taken by prominent sporting men and civic leaders. Chicago was decided a suitable location as a result of the announcement that the contract for the games had been let to the largest stadium in the world. This stadium probably to be constructed in the windy city, will be horseshoe shaped and built of marble and concrete, and will have a seating capacity of 100,000, according to the present plans. The cost is estimated...