Word: rice
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Team A--NewtonCentre at Newton Centre--Newton Centre 4, Harvard 1; J. L. Poole '28, defeated R. E. Stuart, 3-0; A. R. Holt defeated S. M. Dupertuis '28, 3-2; W. H. Rice defeated Seabury Oliver '28, 3-1; R. C. Cook defeated A. G. Thatcher '29, 3-2; R. C. Bray defeated B. H. Whitbeck...
...great gray house curtain rises slowly into the flies. Vanishing, it reveals the show curtain, pride of the company, whether of an appetite for clean fun in the academic halls there depicted, and a justifiable pride in this curtain which creates in advance the collegiate atmosphere for what Grantland Rice though "the only really convincing college show I have ever seen...
Langdell--Eagen, Conrad v. Root--Hunziker, Rice...
...sewer construction that had to be done in Queens was "the biggest job in the country." He told the civil service commissioners that he wanted "a man having peculiar knowledge of sewer construction" to boss the job. He said he had found just such a man in James Rice, a graduate of English Army schools, who had (according to Mr. Connolly) supervised more than $100,000,000 worth of sewer and road construction in the Far East and whose advice was constantly being sought by U. S. Sewer contractors...
...subsequent testimony it developed that Mr. Rice had built only one $300,000 sewer in the Far East, that he was a free lance engineer who was taking "anything I could get in an engineering way." After he had been bossing "the biggest job in the country" for three years, Chief Engineer Rice wrote a new feature into the specifications for Queens sewers. After this specification was inserted, sewer assessments soared. Taxpayers grumbled, politicians muttered about graft, but nothing was done until the past Autumn when Lawyer Henry H. Klein, representing a group of Queens taxpayers, charged that...