Word: rans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...officers have instituted a new method of collections for the finance committee. Last year the secretary-treasurer of the class ran a competition in which each candidate for the finance committee chairmanships secured as much money as he could. As a consequence many members of the class were approached frequently, some not at all. It is proposed that the chairman shall this year appoint sub-chairmen for the finance committee. They in turn will select representatives for each entry in the dormitories...
...lacquered cane, raised the awful cry: "unconstitutional"! After that all the king's horses and all the king's men could not have put through an election. Motions were made, seconded, passed, and shortly superceded. Articles were drawn up, amendments proposed, compromises suggested, and through it all ran an undercurrent of rhetorical abuse. Harvard indifference had flown to the winds and in its place reigned a thousand and one flecting memories of government lectures and courses in Parliamentary procedure. A principle was at stake that had to be defended, and defended it was in fifty-seven different ways, until...
Originally, a British producer controlled this country's artificial silk output through possession of basic patents. In 1920, these patents ran out; and since that time, the U. S. fibre-silk business has experienced an enormous expansion...
...Haven, I ate supper with them and tried to entertain them. They were amused and I was pleased. I told them that if they beat Yale they might have every box in the house. After they won they came down to New York. George Owen and the whole team ran down the aisles and into the boxes while one man kicked a football onto the stage. Between the acts they presented me with a gold football...
...Book. In 1795, the daughter of a man who ran a livery stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance...