Word: marked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...today's election. A committee made up of men selected for their energy, ability, and enterprise can be of great influence in moulding the spirit of the class. On the other hand, a committee carelessly elected, composed of dull and lazy members, will soon become a body of no mark or likelihood dedicated to the purchase of magazines and ash trays for the common room, and little more. Wherefore it behooves the members of the Class of 1929 to realize the importance of todays' elections and to ponder carefully when they mark their ballots in today's elections...
...Manhattan, "Red Cap" porters in the Pennsylvania station promised each to give a dollar a year to found a scholarship for that porter's son who has the highest mark in English, mathematics, history and chemistry. He must be "an obedient boy to his parents and teachers"; he must "desire to make his mark in the world"; he must be "sound in body and mind." The first winner of the scholarship, Marcus Carpenter, 19, is now a freshman at Howard University, Washington...
...best. There is Jacques, chef at the Tehama House, ladling out sea-gull-egg omelets. Banker Eugene Duprey washes down a 15-pound turkey with 20 bottles of claret and waddles into the street to be acclaimed for having won a great bet. Garibaldi the Magnificent furnishes Mark Hopkins' palace on Nob Hill for a commission of $100,000, having chests of gold dragged to his cottage door each week and Neronic feasts of roast duck, bouillabaisse and champagne, while the coin is counted...
Embellished with Grange's own quaint philosophy, captioned with the chaste and simple statement: "This is my real story. I have authorized its publication," this series of articles will provide the youth of America with a mark to shoot at beside which George Washington's veracity will pale into insignificance. Yet the miracle of it is not that this greatest American of our day has finally received full recognition, but that this homely material could inspire in a Yale halfback such depths of lyric emotion...
...event, at which men and women leaders in education will deliver- addresses, will, it was declared "mark the most important development in educational cooperation that this country has ever known...