Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next year the Hon. George Bancroft, donor of the fellowship, who was otherwise famed both as the man who ordered the invasion of Mexico and as a historian of some note, completed his donation to bring the sum of the fund to more than...
...following note was sent by Victor O. Jones '28, Night Editor of the Boston Globe...
Daily "comment sheets" by the editors note the progress of eager candidates. "Conant," runs one of these memorializing the efforts of a now famous College president, "escapes only because he didn't have the chance to blunder...
Memphis' boll-headed Boss Ed Crump told the press that he had got a note demanding $50,000 on pain of death. Crump paid, said he-one cent postage due on the letter. He took a brown grip to a designated spot and left it there for 40 minutes, but nobody came for it. So Crump cleared his throat and read to reporters the contents of the grip: "To the coward perpetrating this dastardly thing: anyone could take a white mouse with baby teeth and run you in the Mississippi River...
Just as the music was beginning and Barbara Ann was set to flash onto the ice, the loudspeaker screeched. The racket might have unnerved a lesser competitor. Cool and calm in silver-braided chiffon, Barbara Ann waited easily, then, at the first musical note, was off with a sparkle of skates. When the last strain of Babes in Toyland had crackled away, and seven international judges had gravely conferred, Barbara Ann Scott was unanimously voted, for the second year in a row, Europe's champion woman figure skater...