Word: key
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus, at this year's beginning we have freshman rules, and a football squad, hardened by the newly begun spring practices, going through one of the hardest fall sessions in years; there are new fraternity regulations, an enlarged and more potent Green Key; and above all there are the changes introduced by the administration: abolition of all entrance requirements and a consequent broadening of the selective system to fill the gap; appointment of a dean of the faculty who will have direct control and supervision over the curriculum, the better to perform progressive alterations...
...hospital near London's Buckingham Palace where she takes care of British officers stepped Sister Agnes Keyser, close friend of Britain's George & Mary who carries her own key to the royal gardens. At the hospital's gate, astonished Sister Agnes found not the travel-worn automobile in which she always rode, but a spic & span new one. She learned that His Majesty, motoring past the hospital, had noticed her old car, ordered for her a Daimler like his own, in the royal colors of maroon and scarlet...
...recovery. Congress had granted the President power to regulate oil shipped in interstate commerce. Oilmen had signed a code. Secretary of Interior Ickes had been named oil administrator. To oilmen most important of all was the P. C. C. Its 15 members would settle the key question of price-fixing. Checking off the appointees last week, oilmen soon saw that at least two-thirds of the P. C. C. frankly favored price-fixing, that only one, President Charles E. Arnott of Socony-Vacuum Corp.* was a die-hard freemarketer...
...tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want-ad in his rival's columns, then claimed the largest want-ad section in the city. His reporters got him the scandalous facts on the city's key men, then he got the key men. ... In five years he had cleaned up a million dollars...
...Corruption probably is the chief cause of the trouble in Cuba," said Nevada's Key Pittman, Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, returning last week from the London Conference. "If the United States should intervene I think other nations would understand." After conferring with the President, Senator Pittman amended: "I expect our warships back soon. The Monroe Doctrine is a thorn in the side of South American nations...