Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such scheme would require approximately three tons of canvas. It would cost $15,000, at a conservative estimate. The H. A. A. will not consider so large an expenditure until we can be reasonably sure that the plan is practicable...
...easier to enunciate an ideal than to propose a method of realizing it. But some suggestions seem almost self-evident. It is too early to have anything but general impressions of the success of the scheme permitting high rank men from qualified schools to enter Harvard on certificate; but those general impressions would indicate that the defects of the plan overbalanced its virtues. To turn to a different proposal, it is something of a question, in view of the apparent necessity for English F, why the College has not yet seen fit to adopt its committee's recommendation that...
...Mineralava Co., manufacturers of "beauty clay," hit upon a great advertising scheme. It despatched Rodolfo Valentino and wife to visit 88 cities and choose the true beauty from all beauties assembled at each place...
...dastardly scheme to make traitors of Americans...
...Wisconsin University Board of Regents and the State Legislature, declared to the Regents last week that a grave peril is being courted by any State which sends Rhodes scholars to Oxford. "The object of Rhodes scholarships is to extend British rule and ultimately to recover the United States. This scheme makes traitors of some of America's finest young men!" No action was taken by the Board. But some patriot somewhere, who does not know how incurably American the Rhodes scholars are considered at Oxford and who has not read Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, will probably...