Word: roster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...determined by this morning's announcement, they have done so. The roster of new appointees, while still slightly suggestive of the playing fields, is refreshingly free especially as regards the Senior appointees from that wholly athletic appearance which characterizes most rolls of honor of undergraduate selection. The new members are thoroughly representative, and have all demonstrated their capacity for work other than that of a purely manual character...
...company to the U. S. This invitation is to be conveyed by the State Department through the usual diplomatic channels, in order to return as far as possible the gracious compliment of France to the American stage. Incidentally, the committee of patrons which makes possible this courtesy carries a roster of names, great in almost every field of endeavor - Art, Finance, Law, Education, Politics. Otto H. Kahn is Honorary President. James K. Hackett is Honorary Executive Secretary. Others include W. Vincent Astor, George F. Baker Jr., James M. Beck, David Belasco, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Paul D. Cravath, John...
...roster of names great in almost every field of endeavor...
...Yard, but the greatness of its founder and the power of its purpose deserves? Perhaps five hundred men have been connected with it in the past year. Many of these have been in boys clubs and other social service work, and the presence of their names on the roster is more due to the efficiency of the Social Service Committee than to any innate interest in the Brooks House itself. The work connected with our Association should be at least as important as the work of any of our publications, and as much a duty as trying for any college...
...roster of great names and memorable fights is Bendigo, Sayers and Heenan (coadjustors in the "most memorable fight"), James Mace, John L. Sullivan, Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, William Richmond; Peter Jackson, Thomas Molineaux, Jack Johnson-the great Negroes; Carpentier, Beckett, Dempsey...