Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park the servants* we brought from Washington suffered from a jinx which followed its course in three mishaps! My mother-in-law's serving table in the dining room has a center standard. Too many dishes were put on one side, and in the middle of the dinner the table tipped over. No one could think for a minute because of the noise of breaking china...
...foot Sea Dragon put out from Hong Kong last February, Captain John Wenlock Welch commanding. She has not been seen since. Public interest in Richard Halliburton's fate was modified by the suspicion that his disappearance might be a pressagent stunt. But last week, in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, was published the record of what appeared to be the only unpremeditated adventure of Adventurer Halliburton's career...
...members of the Faculty, as well as of many older members, are more widespread and deeply rooted than over. The past few weeks have seen an unparalleled furry of administrative section in declared application of the principles of your report. The most debatable parts of the report have been put into precipitate operation: others have been neglected...
...tenure provisions of your report, in their negative aspects, have been put into application with remorseless retroactivity. In at least two clear instances men of undisputed capacity as scholars and as teachers have been given terminating appointments on the sole ground that they have already served the University more than eight years and that the budget does not permit their present advance to permanent rank...
Ninety-two Harvard students in Naval Science will embark on the battleship Wyoming and the destroyer U.S.S. Herbert at Charlestown Navy Yard today for the annual summer cruise of the college Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps. The cruise will put in at Havana, Charleston, S. C., and New York City, and return to Boston about July...