Word: properly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Organization has become the god of those in charge of athletics. Fleets of trucks, card indexes, carefully trained players are all part of the machinery. And it is perfectly fitting and proper that athletes should be delicately handled. But debating is another matter, and the innovation adopted by Coach Rowe has merited a front-page notice in the Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought...
...Commission) to oversee the work. However, the Jones bill called for $325,000,000, or some 31 millions more than the discarded Administration bill. It called for all this outlay from the U.S. Treasury, local communities contributing only one third of the costs of raising old levees to their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from States watered by the Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with...
...Stockholder John D. Rockefeller Jr. cast no vote, but offered no censure. Col. Stewart's fellow directors immediately re-elected him as their chairman. Explaining his neutrality, Mr. Rockefeller announced that he was still "seeking the facts . . . and will take such steps in the matter as he thinks proper. Since more than 50,000 other stockholders of the Indiana Company are involved, it is obvious that Mr. Rockefeller must not act precipitately...
Meanwhile the treaty text was not made public, but it was understood to involve a relaxation of British influence throughout Egypt proper, in exchange for more complete extension of British authority in the Sudan...
...reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English youth, to the great disgust of Sir Basil, turns out to be the son of another father and immediately sets about marrying...