Word: offerred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scholarship of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. The competition is open to all schools of the United States which prepare not less than seven boys for college. An important aspect of the competition is that the winning school need not send any of its students to Harvard. The offer provides that the award go to that school of which seven graduates as a team attain the highest average on College Board Examinations embracing the four major fields of each of the individuals concentration. The competition was keen. Boston Latin won with an average of 88.93; Hotchkiss was a close second...
...Tutor Door--Massachusetts Avenue at Holyoke--An old English atmosphere that takes you back--way back. If you can afford it, excellent. If you can't, go anyway. It's always amusing. The very best Harlem has to offer. Black Bottom, hey, hey stuff starts at two o'clock. Come later...
...complete equipment for a railroad magnate's desk consisted of an atlas, a silver spike, and a box of coronas; now one must have at least Roget's Thesaurus and the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The influence of the cloisters is unmistakable. Time-tables may prove unsolvable enigmas, freight rates may offer material for a mathematical genius, but syntax will never suffer as long as the Burlington runs...
...F.P.A. who in New York, Received a visit from the stork We offer blessings duly solemn. Respecting him who runs a column...
...summer in London picking up a cockney dialect and wardrobe) plays the wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season. Liza Doolittle, howling gutter-virgin, is transformed by Scientist Higgins into a perfect specimen of Dutchess Britannica-triumph for Mr. Higgins' theory of phonetics. As the outside of a beautiful Duchess, the love-starved...