Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other clients, who desired to make ambitious and tangible presents, were dissuaded by the architects who suggested a more practical scheme. In pursuance of this scheme Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, poet and sister to the late Theodore Roosevelt, presented "a sum of money [contributed by the guests at the party] to the American Institute of Architects to establish a fund to enable French students of architecture to visit the United States to study the work done here, which will help to repay in a small way the generosity of the French Government to the many American students who have received...
...seven o'clock for a period not less than much too long. A fine of thirty dollars would not be out of place for this offense; fifty is more in keeping with the estimates of the ten o'clock scholars resident in the Holden tradition. In accordance with this scheme, class rushes of a splendidly barbaric simplicity have been converted into tuge-of-war with their reminiscent aroma of Greek culture. At Harvard the case is somewhat more difficult, but the senior class after a year of intimate study of this problem may embody their findings in some appropriate class...
...scheme: to distribute gas much as electricity is now distributed, over a national, super-power network of piping...
...scheme at the Academy takes little account of vacations. Except for ten days during the Christmas seasons of his second, third and fourth years, the cadet is allowed but ten weeks respite during the four year term. The summer months are occupied with camp and other military operations...
Schemer. In Philadelphia a policeman's berth is rapidly becoming a mare's nest. Mayor Harry A. Mackey, who has hitherto expressed many wishes to be of more momentous service to District Attorney Monaghan, gloated over a choice scheme. He ordered a complete transfer of the city police. About 4,800 officers found themselves detailed to new precincts. The order came suddenly; no policeman knew beforehand to what station he was being assigned. Before the transfer each Captain submitted a report of conditions in his precinct, a resume of the reports of sergeants and patrolmen under him. Following...