Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal way to stage the intercollegiate quarter-mile event would be on a course without a bend, but such a plan is impracticable. The only scheme of conducting the event in lanes is fair to the competitors and yet not entirely satisfactory because the man-to-man element is diminished by the staggered starting marks. So long as the race is conducted under present conditions there is bound to be some jockeying, but I think it is to the credit of the I.C.A.A.A.A. competitors that the championship races down through the years have been fought in clean, manly fashion...
...machinery for collection and expenditure depends a great part of the success of the plan. A great part of whatever failure has occurred in recent years can be attributed to the inevitable duplication of effort and to the absence of the best organization possible. Toward this end, the following scheme sees to this committee to be best adapted to the exigencies of the situation...
...said Prince Ludwig Windisch-Graetz ; "this was no common crime, but part of a great patriotic fight .... I had not the honor to originate this gigantic scheme .... a circle, the members of which I shall not name, prepared it, and merely called on me for financial aid, which I gladly gave...
...Harvard Housing Trust was formed of Harvard graduates to see what could be done toward providing those students with suitable homes at a reasonable price, at the same time putting the scheme on a basis which would yield a moderate return to its investors. The first difficulty was overcome last winter when suitable land was discovered for the erection of the proposed houses...
...barber who always needs a haircut and the tailor whose clothes never fit him, then it is the economics professor who makes unwise investments-at least he seldom causes a sensation by making brilliant ones. But the foolish economists of Columbia University will be benefited by a scheme projected there last week, a scheme that is probably unique among college faculties. Shrewd astronomers, canny classics scholars, practical esthetics lecturers- in fact, all Columbia's staff-were invited to pool their investments in a faculty fund to be handled by three trustees. The benefits promised: services of competent counsel, diversification...