Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is that Terry no longer holds his university post because of his soft-heartedness. In 1919 it was discovered that he was not only disclosing to nervous undergraduates the results of examinations before the sacred date for the publication of marks, but also, on occasion, raising the marks from failure to passing. One Harvard man assures us that Terry saved more students from flunking out than any professor or tutor in the university. The New Yorker...
...Brown, Ward and Rimmer." Professor Post, New Fogg, small lecture room...
...Meunier," Professor Post, New Fogg, Small Lecture Room...
...Senate, Georgia's Harris declared: "Ninety per cent of the post-office appointments, I believe, are sold in my state." Said Georgia's George, "The sum of the exactions made would be fairly staggering." "Ridiculous," commented Postmaster General Harry Stewart New. Then two Florida postmasters-Alvin L. Durrance of Frostproof and Leslie D. Roberts of Avon Park-talked of paying "levy" for their posts. Postmaster General New discharged them forthwith...
This triumphal return was set off and made the more notable by a furious counterblast of criticism from the British press of Hongkong. There the South China Post, the China Mail and the Hongkong Telegraph all insinuated that Minister MacMurray had settled on "too lenient terms," in order that the U. S. Republican party might point to a diplomatic victory on the eve of a U. S. presidential election...