Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster House assault is only one of the cases which has given the College unpleasant notoriety this fall. While the conflict between freedom and personal responsibility in the matter of excessive drinking is at the root of these tragedies, there are several important secondary questions which the coming College investigation must consider. The first is Colonel Apted...
...root of Peter Quennell's analysis is that Byron was bisexual, a theory not developed in Frances Winwar's less minute study. Apparently with careful design, Byron began spreading stories about himself when his fortunes were highest. He even confided in scatter-brained Lady Caroline, after she had become his virulent enemy. Prevented from publicly proclaiming his love for his sister, he married, choosing as his wife a prim, exact intellectual whom he did not love and whose highbrow affectations amused him and his friends. He took his bride to his sister's home, tormenting her with...
...those services were worth. Thus it was admitted that Cook, Nathan & Lehman, attorneys for the stockholders' committee, were "responsible in large measure for the fact that the stockholders' rights have been preserved." But where Cook, Nathan & Lehman claimed $250,000, Judge Coxe allowed them $115,000. Similarly Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, attorneys for the receivers and trustees, specified that partners of the firm had put in 9,545 hours on the Paramount case and that their associates had put in 62,568 hours. But of a claim for $700,000, Judge Coxe allowed only $200,000, partly because...
INSPIRED by the success of the first four colleges five others took root before the Revolution interrupted all formal education on our chores. Berriamio Franskin's radically unchruchly University of Pennsylvania and New York's Episcopalism but progressive (king's College demonstrated their mortal tolerance by jointly collecting foods in London. Somewhat later Sam co Occum of the Mobicantribe, was performing that service in England and Scotland for Elenar Wheelock's struggling Dartmouth...
BROWNS original University Hall still stands, only very slightly altered. John Brown, pioneer overseas shipping magnate, himself laid its corner stone in 1770 and gave liquid encouragement to the workmen when each floor and the root was finished...