Word: quarters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriots boiled, not at politely perspicacious Ornithologist Knight, but at poetically licentious Hermon MacNeil, designer of the eagle which has been stamped on U. S. quarter-dollars since 1916. "Feet of a duck!" patriots muttered. "Designer MacNeil should be shown a flying eagle and made to try again...
...resplendent palace, seemed like a coronet of gold and platinum studded with pebbles. The banquet menu, however, was less incongruous. Delicate appetizers, including three kinds of caviar, were followed by an exquisite bisque, then many a fish, roast game in abundance, a fragile salad, and fruits from every quarter of the Soviet Union, some fresh and some in syrup. Because the Afghans are Moslems and accordingly teetotalers, however, there was not served that profusion of vintage wines which enlivens typical Soviet banquets...
Watts put up the beat at this point and his heavier crew began to forge ahead rapidly. They overhauled the Juniors at the Henley distance and finished the full race a length and a quarter in the van. The time was ten minutes and seven seconds for the winners and five seconds more for the Lawrence boat. A heavy head wind slowed up both crews...
...course, tell you what men in my opinion should do well on their past records. In the 440, there is, above all, Yale's flash Launcelot Ross who won the quarter against Pennsylvania in 48 seconds, for a new Yale record. When a man gets down to 48 seconds, he can't be left out of any dope sheet no matter what the meet may be. Other good men seem to be Engle, a Yale sophomore, and the trio who raced each other last Saturday in the Dartmouth, Colgate, Syracuse meet. I mean Barbuti, of Syracuse. Swope of Dartmouth...
Interest Every Day. John J. Pulleyn is president of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in Manhattan, for a quarter of a century the largest U. S. savings bank; and President John J. Pulleyn knows that even small depositors calculate and resent the loss of interest on savings they withdraw before monthly, quarterly or semi-annual interest dates. Therefore President Pulleyn's bank last week began to pay, and claimed it was the first to pay, full interest for every day savings are on deposit. In the cases of some small accounts, the bank's bookkeeping cost will...