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Word: receipts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wheat trading pits a "pink ticket" is the receipt for grain purchased but undelivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Barnes v. Legge | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Announcement of the receipt of the resignation of Professor Coolidge '95 from the Board of Directors of the Watch and Ward was made to the CRIMSON last evening by Rev. Raymond Calkins '90, President of the Society. Professor Coolidge has been connected with the House Plan since his appointment last winter as House Master of Lowell House, one of the two new resident units now nearing completion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J.L. COOLIDGE QUITS HIS VIGILANCE POST | 12/14/1929 | See Source »

Last month, after a year's delay, the State Department acknowledged receipt of the note, stated that there was no need for comment at this time. Implication of the U. S. note was that there would be time enough for Antarctic pie-cutting after the Byrd explorations were completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Antarctic Ownership | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

There was obviously no malice in the Lampoon's sally with an old tradition, and the editors of that organization did what they so often have neglected to do and took precautions to avoid even the appearance of evil. Immediately upon receipt of the fence they solemnly swore before the law that they intended to return the relic and so placed its seizure legally in the category of "prank". Few can cavil with the law's definition of the point and even fewer can avoid admitting that as a prank it was more than magnificent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD NATURED RAILERY | 11/23/1929 | See Source »

...affair has apparently become more than one between a professional photographer and a petty burglar. It is between Yale men and several undergraduates of Princeton, Yale, or Harvard. It has become fairly clear, since the receipt by the Yale News of obviously spurious telegrams from various sections of country that the disappearance of this last vestige of an old Yale tradition was an undergraduate prank. That the Eli authorities regard it as such is shown by the fact that detectives are already at work on the campi of the universities under suspicion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard, Yale and Princeton Fall Suspect to Theft of Eli Fence--One Indefinite Clue Points to Harvard Students | 11/20/1929 | See Source »

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