Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bartolommeo Colleoni was a 18th Century gangster who earned undying fame by making a shrewd contract with the Venetian Republic. He agreed to lead the Venetian army against Milan in return for a large sum in cash and a statue of himself on horseback in the middle of St. Mark's Square. The statue was finally erected blocks away, but it was by Verrocchio. It is now generally considered the greatest equestrian statue in the world...
Next week American Telephone & Telegraph Co. will celebrate its 50th anniversary with a dignified one-hour radio broadcast. In Washington, however, the new Federal Communications Commission is preparing to mark A. T. & T.'s golden jubilee in livelier fashion. Armed with a $750,000 appropriation, the Commission is already at work on an investigation of the telephone industry for the benefit of the U. S. Senate, which discovered to its amazement that A. T. & T. had never been put under the Congressional microscope. President Walter Sherman Gifford says there are no skeletons in his closets, and last week...
...Tiger Varsity is a powerful outfit which should go far this season. Five lettermen are back in togs, but only three of these will be in the boat which will face the starting mark Saturday--Bob Hallett, Al Gawthrop, and Coxswain Roger Firestone...
...shells fought each other over every yard of the 3-mi. course with California a length ahead at the halfway mark. Washington, using a slower but more powerful stroke, gradually caught up from there on. At the finish, the bows were so close together that, while the judges were trying to decide who won, an unofficial announcement through loudspeakers rigged along the banks gave the victory to California by two feet. While the crowd was yelping too loud to hear it, judges announced the real result: Washington, by two yards...
...diabolically tempted to scream "Why did you take Harkness's money anyway?" It must be remembered, however, that this situation is one which was dimly expected, and one for which neither the House Masters nor the University are responsible. Before the final solution of this problem Harvard must mark time. The only possible outcome without a reduction in the number of admissions to the Freshman Class is an enlargement of the House Plan, a goal which, unfortunately, the University is not in a financial position to attain at the present time...