Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play has done very creditably. In the game yesterday the men played with judgment and snap, and the team work was excellent. Under the most favorable conditions it is far from easy to gain the interest of the students in a new team. Yesterday's victory, however, has put the ice polo team on a good footing in the University and has insured the future success of the sport at Harvard...
GENTLEMEN: Mrs. Briggs and I regret the inconvenience to which some of our friends were put by invitations issued in our name for a reception at our house last night. We should gladly have received our friends had we known of the invitations in time, and had not prior engagements made a reception impossible...
...expected that the first tablet will be completed in about six weeks and the others will be put up as soon as sufficient money is raised...
...that if it is to be conducted in a sound, business-like manner, the directors must be chosen for their good judgment and ability. A member should either not vote at all or he should vote for the man who seems to him best fitted for the position. To put the name of a man on a ballot merely with the intention of playing a joke on him, is a form of wit that is likely to be little appreciated at Harvard...
...should have reached into the hundreds of millions is a miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread was scarce almost to the point of famine, should men have dug for gold...