Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigger than all New England is the Mexican state of Sonora. Biggest news of the week in Sonora was a ferocious scheme, calmly announced by the great landed proprietor Francisco Fimbres to put to death a whole tribe of Apache Indians, braves, squaws and papooses. Local papers praised Ferocious Fimbres. He claimed to have every assurance that the Mexican Government would not try to stop his private massacre...
...projected school is obviously founded on the feeling of the Harvard student body that there is a need for an outlet for dramatic expression in Cambridge. The University has offered no adequate means to develop this latent desire for instruction in the theatrical arts, and the present scheme will include those who have felt strongly the lack of this essential...
...class solidity and in its way will be an invaluable aid to the success of the new experiment. If, without the express wish of the College authorities, men have found it convenient and satisfactory to retain their rooms for three years, this feature, an essential detail in the new scheme, augurs well for the success of the whole system...
...smaller towns the scheme of life is not complete without the local unit banker?men like Gallic Harris of Franklin, Ky. Benign-faced, with a smile for everyone, an optimist in all emergencies, family and business, adviser to every patron and friend, trustee of every church or hospital loan, executor when men died ?dedicating their souls to God and their estates to the banker! He befriended a poor foreign peddler with a pack on his back. . . . This peddler became a great and successful merchant and when he died, his will gratefully gave his large estate to this banker. When...
...lecture he took up in detail the sub-classifications in that part of the scheme which runs from electrons to meteorites, which is called the Microcosmos. The subject most emphasized in the lecture was the great importance of the study of shooting stars. He listed and described many problems towards which important contributions can be made by the careful scientific study of meteors and meteorites. "Studies of the brightness of shooting stars", he said. "Indicate that the earth's atmosphere 50 miles above the surface is of about the same temperature as at the surface itself. Further knowledge...