Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least, is something like; you chaps have a try.' Then, this evening we came down to the House prepared to hear and cheer all these new developments that are going to hurry up the social millenium, and Mr. Shaw described how the Government had been carrying out our scheme. . . . He lifted a rabbit out of a hat, but it was not his rabbit. The rodent which last December was the most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature that ever escaped from a lethal chamber is today lifted from the hat with ostentatious pride and self-satisfaction...
Next season, Prof. Senn will be guest at Manchester. He will lecture to the English students on the physiology of Alpine plants. This scheme of successive visits, as opposed to simultaneous exchange, is less disrupting to the organization of a department than is the installation of a new official, strange to the ways of his hosts...
...past years, bathing has been permitted on every part of the float, and on warm days as many as 20 or 30 men have made use of this swimming privilege. General dissatisfaction has been felt with this scheme, however, both by athletic authorities at the University, and by the crew management, as the number of swimmers has recently interfered with the incoming crews and launches, and has presented a serious possibility of accident...
...proper defense against a gathering of the clans of radicalism into internationals is quite obviously a mastering of conservatives into such organizations as the All-American Conference; the only pus sling question is why no one has thought of this brilliant scheme before. An answer is suggested, however, by the nature of the resolutions adopted. Among other the Conference has decided to refuse to allow American's entry into the war to be debated and to demand that "unadulterated and undiluted American history" be taught in American schools, as opposed to the emasculated history has been introduced no generally... robbing...
...scheme consists in informing gullible individuals that they (the gullibles) are descendents of one Anneke Jans Bogardus, wife of the Rev. Everardus Bogardus, who owned the valuable plot some two centuries ago. For a modest fee to cover the expenses of investigating the title, the swindlers hold out to their prospects the possibility of sharing in the sale of the property for many millions of dollars, should it be found rightfully to belong to the Bogardus heirs. For many years the clique lived off the "fees" obtained from the "heirs...