Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rules of the contest had bot been so framed as to keep out the experts, the Graphic proceeded two months after the game was over to disqualify them by embodying a number of additional ex post facto rules in an affidavit which they said winners must sign in order to get their awards. Probably not one winner in ten could truthfully sign the affidavit...
...object of this economic endeavor has not been the making of money for its own sake. It certainly has not been for the purpose of endowing an aristocracy with wealth. It has been fostered and encouraged by the Government in order to provide the people at large with sufficient incomes to raise their standards of living to a position worthy of a free and enlightened nation...
...plates are copies, with a few variations, of those used in the College refectory a century ago, and bear pictures of the Yard and buildings as they then were. They will be sold in sets of one dozen at a price of $12. Checks should be drawn to the order of Harvard University...
...would give the football players more initiative, and accordingly wanted to give the plan a season's trial. We did not feel that a non-scouting system would prove successful because of the suspicion that it would raise, but we were glad to give this arrangement a trial in order to cooperate with Yale...
...extra-Hearstian circles as did the revelation that the Calles government was adopting Soviet methods in such details as the president's addressing his aides as "comrade". But the last accusation, that Calles paid a Maine lawyer $10,000 to investigate British mine conditions during a strike in order to insure the judicious expenditure of $100,000 which he planned to give in the name of the Seviet, has been fiatly denied by both the lawyer and President Calles' aide. It was claimed by the Mexican government that the documents printed in the Hearst papers were offered to Calles...