Word: needful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are so many rules and regulations in this country about eligibility, professionalism, and good manners in intercollegiate football that the need for a uniform congress of colleges on a football code can hardly be denied. At its annual meeting last spring the National Students Federation of America considered just such a need and voted a resolution to the effect that it would exert all of its influence towards the organization of a conference which would reorganize athletic eligibility rules...
...need to emphasize" he said, "that Koenigstein's population hails this day of liberation from the foreign yoke. How we have longed for the day! I must, however, declare that the British troops did not make life as hard for us as some French troops who were quartered on us previously...
...commercial customers. Said Mr. Reynolds: "There are innumerable instances where a company is not entitled to commercial bank credit . . . and is in no position to go to the securities market. . . . Yet it is entirely sound and worthy of banking cooperation. . . . We know from experience that there is keen need for this additional banking service, that it is entirely sound and extremely lucrative. . . . There will be [in Continental Chicago Corp.] nothing of the speculative activity in which many of the present organizations [investment trusts] are prominent and which will undoubtedly, occasion difficulty unless it is abandoned." It appeared, therefore, that Continental...
...attacked from a new angle by a big new institution called the Lincoln Scholarship Fund. This Fund started functioning last week in Manhattan. Its campaign: to raise $1,120,000 to lend as tuition fees to "anyone, regardless of age, race, color or creed who can furnish proof of need and sincerity of purpose." Its founder: Jacob J. Vandever, onetime (1922) President of the New York Rotary Club, and active philanthropist who likes to dress up as "Father Knickerbocker" each year for the outing of the Broadway Association, booster organization. Associated with Founder Vandever on a national advisory committee...
...effect of their daily newspaper may be tonic or it may be naroctic--according to whichever need and taste they themselves bring to it. And their reading of a daily newspaper can become tonic and not narcotic in the degree that they read it primarily for news...