Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University racquet wielders now hold two legs on the trophy, and a victory this year will make them outright holders of the cup. Last year the Harvard court men swept aside all opposition in the first two rounds, winning by clean sweeps. They continued their triumphal progress in the semifinals and finals when they defeated both the Bosten and Philadelphia teams by a four to one count...
...details in the lead were manifestly not so, even after the revelation? That, for instance, she, now 15, has not yet "in- herited" the estate, which is to be held by her mother in trust until Doris is 35? Or that some of the estate goes outright to her mother, as coheir? The serious thing was that the main lead, keeping within the law, held interest through three paragraphs only by a deliberate misstatement. Taxes paid to a county or state are not earmarked for any particular disbursement...
...College had existed for 85 years before an endowed professorship was established. In 1721, Thomas Hollis gave the foundation fund for the professorship of divinity which still bears his name. He endowed Harvard outright with a sum of money, the interest of which 40 pounds per year, was to be the "honorable stipend" of Professor of Divinity, "to read lectures in the Hall of the College unto the students; the said Professor to be nominated and appointed from time to time by the President and Fellows of Harvard College; and when choice is made of a fitting person...
...Rings some wrestle till they're mad outright...
...costly filial presents. From John G. Shedd, aging board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., came a third million to add to two he had promised for the construction of a ne plus ultra city aquarium in Grant Park. From Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears Roebuck & Co.), came three millions outright to restore the old Fine Arts building of World's Fair days in Jackson Park and house within it a museum of industrial progress. Mr. Shedd's increased aquarium gift came forth promptly when he learned that two millions would not pay for a plant planned by architects...