Word: putting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...father was a factory hand pressing cattle horns into combs. The factory closed. The father died. Spindly-legged David Ignatius, aged 7, trudged over the hills around Worcester to gather wild berries and sell them. He picked enough, and did enough odd jobs, newspaper-selling, errand-running, to put himself through school. He was president of his class. From Holy Cross he was graduated in 1893, from the Boston University Law School four years later. At 24 he began to practise law at Fitchburg. At 27, as a "common people's" Democrat, he was sent by a hidebound Republican...
...ministry of the church in which I serve has as unbroken a tradition, reaching back to the earliest age, as any ministry in Christendom-if one cares to boast of these carnal things.† I would not willingly expose this ministry to such disparagement as appears to be put upon it by Bishop Manning...
...athletic building with the proviso that the University raise the rest of the funds necessary for its completion. In December, 1927, an "Alumnus Aquaticus" placed $100,000 in trust for a "swimmery" primarily for Harvard undergraduates. No less than two months later one "Anonymous Aquaticus" put the sum of $250,000 in trust for Harvard for an undergraduate swimming pool. The conditions were that work on this plant should start within one year of February 18, 1928, and be finished within two years of that date. The plot was thickening; Mr. Bingham could not well afford to loose such generous...
...Boston district does not in any way excuse Harvard from trying to find reasonably priced rooms in Cambridge for her visitors and giving these facilities adequate publicity. The high prices of the hotels and the definitely restricted number of their rooms place an obligation upon some Harvard organization to put at the disposal of her visitors some sort of accomodation intermediate between that offered by the study floor and the de Luxe Hotel suite to be reserved two weeks in advance...
...speech throughout would in all probability seem strange and exaggerated, but that in reality it was only very slightly overdone. It may be that she was correct in her statement, but it seemed to us that there was a very noticeable emphasis on the sweeping gestures which was being put on for effect almost entirely. The effect was produced and had a very happy result as far as this reviewer was concerned at least. It was unquestionably amusing...