Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tonight the cagers will face a pathetic Cornell ballclub which has a 3-19 record. In the middle of January, the Big Red lost their top two scorers Stan Mason and Gerry Newby due to a few problems with their...
...dismay, we find that our initial endeavors are not what we hoped them to be. Our bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words do not seem to express just what we had intended them to portray. So-o-o, we call in an experienced mason, who, by applying a T-square, straightens up our building, or on the other hand we refer to our night editor, who, by using know-how, shifts our words around until our original ideas suddenly blaze forth clearly and distinctly...
This is a very tantalizing procedure, though. Why in the name of the Seven Shahs should we have to call in someone to finish what we expressly desired to do all by ourselves? Was the master mason born with a T-square dangling at his side instead of an arm? Was the night editor born with a Rules of Rhetoric under his caul? Of course not. It is just the old process of try, try again or if at first you don't succeed, stay with it. We of the Crimson have one great advantage over the man who tries...
Last spring Distillers raised its offer by $ 1,000,000-on condition that all parents accept the amount as a final settlement (even though it fell far short of one actuarial estimate of the real damages, calculated at $240,000 per child).* In August, Distillers dropped the condition, but Mason and a handful of other parents still held...
...posters began appearing around the country, showing, in one case, a spirits glass with a deformed child in the bottom. No fewer than 254 M.P.s signed a motion calling on the company to honor its "moral responsibilities." Then a group of rebel shareholders in the company, including Art Dealer Mason, called for an extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders to discuss possible removal of Distillers Chairman Sir Alexander McDonald-who had been knighted only last year for "services to exports." The charge: "failure to provide adequate compensation" for the thalidomide children...