Word: put
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...rejected as being inexpedient and as of little practical value. Daylight-saving during the winter has met with little favor. The plan now adopted, however, provides for a need which has long been felt in this country. In Europe, moving the clock forward during the summer months has been put to practical effect, and its efficiency has thoroughly been demonstrated...
...judge Charles William Eliot aright, you must put out of mind his titles, his honors, and his successes. These have been but happy accidents. They reflect credit on the community to which he belonged, and the times in which he lived; but they throw little light on his character. That he was elected President of Harvard College was surprising; that he made a success of his new work was more surprising. For he had not what was usually recognized as an academic mind. Like Wordsworth, he had "to create the taste by which he was appreciated...
...broad streets and the subway made it seem anachronistic. Yet in spite of its lack of the artistic, in spite of its being the home of the Bursar, Dane Hall had a certain charm. It could always glance over at Matthews or peer round the corner at Weld and put those two to shame from the standpoint of personal attraction. Also it was old, at least old for the United States, and it had become venerable. In its age, with wrinkles stealing on, it had settled down comfortably and seemed to announce to landscape gardeners and architects that it intended...
Adams, who graduated from College last spring, joined the Royal Flying Corps at Toronto, Canada, a few days after Commencement. He was commissioned a second lieutenant last December, and was sent to England at once. A few weeks later he was put on active service on the Western Front. During the summer of 1916, Adams served as a Red Cross ambulance driver...
...first workout on the Charles River yesterday, when two of Coach Brown's crews, the fourth Freshman and a mixed University and Freshman shell had a limited row from Weld up and down the short stretch of open water below the Anderson Bridge. Coach Haines has decided not to put any of the upper crews on the river until the latter part of the week, when it is hoped the launch can follow the crews. However, two more shells will take to the water today. It is expected that by next Monday, when the Newell Boathouse will be opened, that...