Word: mustering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...however, at such direct handling has been made by the Yale student council recently in connection with the small vote east in the election of the committee which supervises the annual junior class dance. In the future at Yale all elections for committees in charge of traditional activities must muster two-thirds of the class as voters if the custom is to be continued. The ruling provides both a check upon undergraduate feeling toward the custom and a means of eliminating it if interest is lacking...
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...
...champion. Outstanding Chicagoans are Infielder Rogers Hornsby and Outfielders Hack Wilson (who recently got into a fist fight with a Cincinnati player), Riggs Stephenson, Kiki Cuyler. The Chicago Club has three first rate pitchers (Guy Bush, Charlie Root, Pat Malone) precisely two more than most of its competitors can muster...
Many an oldtime Southern Republican wondered how the Slemp trick would work. Virginia Republicans normally muster 75,000 or more votes. The runaway Democrats of 1928 numbered only some 40,000 votes. In the new alliance the majority accepted the minority's major candidate...
...Watson leadership. Twice had he failed to stem the Debenture Plan tide in the Senate, finally leaving it to President Hoover to interpose his own political authority to straighten out the legislative mess. President Hoover had wanted a suspension of National Origins. Leader Watson last week was unable to muster enough party votes to consummate that Hoover wish, was even absent himself on the roll call...