Word: lets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been detained in carrying out its own wishes by pressure from the Corporation. The doings and deliberations of this body are always cloaked in obscurity and the motivation of its decisions not always apparent. In the present instance, the Corporation's reluctance to let the H. A. A. spend its own money seems unusually inexplicable. In view of the fact that this tightening of the purse strings is likely to affect the bodily welfare of a large share of the student body, it is necessary that a more adequate explanation be given than...
...been deceptively repaired; cracked stones. In 1923 his charges had been refuted and the document affirming their refutation signed by Engineer Johnson. Now, for some curious reason he has spoken again. Nebraskans recalled that Engineer Johnson had not been allowed to build the capitol, that Architect Goodhue had let the contracts and dominated the construction.* This time the capitol commission and other defendants found it easier to combat Engineer Johnson for the capitol had arisen in the prairie and offered tangible evidence. Potent among the defendants was Manhattan Architect Francis L. S. Mayers of the firm of Mayers, Murray...
...Pulitzer awards are not officially announced until May. Dr. Richard Burton, chairman of the prize jury, let slip the news about Author Oliver's book in a lecture on "Types of Contemporary Literature" at the University of Minnesota. Upton Sinclair's Boston would have been a winner, he said, but for its "socialistic tendencies...
...collection of stories, one of which-far from the best-was included in The American Caravan (arty anthology). A better story is entitled "A Predicament," and concerns a young priest disturbed at confessional by a drunk who thinks he is on a street car, and demands to be let off at the corner of King and Yonge. The young priest, sliding the panel between him and the drunk, recognizes the grating sound as the same noise made by the closing doors of a street car. Fearful of unseemly disturbance, uncertain what to do, he prolongs a confession at the women...
...Ticknor '31 in centerfield, when he learned that the gymnasts were starting their southpaw Lipp, but Ticknor continued in his batting slump, striking out three times. Nugent drew a walk in the first inning. E. H. McGrath '31 singled, and a passed ball which rolled into the Crimson dugout let them both in. A moment later when the catcher dropped his third strike. Ticknor saw first base for the first time since early in the Southern trip, but was stranded there...