Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name of France that their professional honor stands wholly vindicated, and hastened to add his conviction that they are excelled in no respect by foreign telephonists. Scandinavians and U. S. citizens who used Paris telephones, last week, were not so sure, still think the service in the homelands quickest...
...situation is that in this day of far flung publicity those errors are flung broadeast through the country. And the graduates humiliated and ashamed and, perhaps, too, a little forgetful of their own youthful indiscretions, turn to the suggestion of graduate control for the CRIMSON as the quickest remedy for an undisputed evil...
...that the Yale game has been played, the CRIMSON feels that some comment may be made on Mr. Hardwick's remarks at the Union. These, to be brief, were that the CRIMSON has not been "supporting" the football team. A plea of guilty will be the quickest way to answer the charge. The CRIMSON does not "support" the football team, any more than it "supports" the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard Corporation, the Harvard Lampoon, or the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...best solution appears to be the last named, that of the happy medium. Obviously the quickest method of accomplishing this aim is to copy the Oxford idea of Pass men and Honor men. But, excluding discussion as to whether or not this would ever be advisable with the American undergraduate, it may be pointed out that in those institutions which have tried this arrangement-- Columbia and Smith--the tendency has been toward a decrease in the number of Honor men, a contrary reaction from what might be expected. This is of course undesirable, especially when there are other means...
...first banking job had been at Panora, Iowa, where he had charge of the broom and polish rag. He flourished; made his banking way to Des Moines, then to Chicago. President Taft in 1909 wanted him for secretary of the treasury. He refused. George is known as the quickest and the firmest to say yes or no to a banking matter...