Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk's job, traveling part of the way as an ally of Curley. When Curley went to jail, City Clerk Hynes became temporary mayor, bitterly offended Curley's City Hall crowd by his efficiency and honesty. To protect him from Curley's reprisals for taking the post, the Massachusetts state legislature voted him the city clerk's job for life (at $8,000 a year...
...them and go to shore when another rowboat, occupied by two Russian women, approached. The guards hailed the newly arrived boat, and after a brief but wordy exchange both boats rowed to the shore where they dispossessed the two women, expropriated their less leaky boat and resumed their post... I never saw more rugged souls...
...English post called Goethe "the last of the worldly poets" who sought to achieve universality. Spender emphasized the German poet-scientist's success at avoiding the rising tide of subjectivism which has since engulfed modern poetry by involving himself in activities of the outer world...
...Post records mean noting when these two teams meet. There have been upsets by both sides, although a Harvard team never before has come up to the Yale game with just one previous victory to show for the season...
Aside from these qualifications for the post, Seymour practically inherited the presidency. An ancestor, Joseph Colt, received an honorary degree at the first Yale commencement in 1702. His great-great-grandfather, Thomas Clap, was president of Yale College from 1740 to 1766. His great-uncle, Jeremiah Day, filled the same office between 1817 and 1846. His grandfather, Nathan P. Seymour, was a graduate of the college, and his father, Thomas Day Seymour, was Hillhouse Professor of Greek Language and Literature...