Word: sending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reports previous to the meeting said that the pranksters would send men to "represent" the bewildered Smiths at any necessary nominee meetings...
...contest is the only non-league game remaining on the Crimson schedule, and as such is more dispensable than the seven league tilts. Seven straight Pentagonal wins, however, will never send the hockey team back out West, but couple those seven with a decisive victory tonight and Weiland's sextet will certainly deserve top consideration by the NCAA selection committee...
...newspaperman in Northern Rhodesia. Said he: "It sometimes seems that the home office of every newspaper and news agency is equipped with schoolroom atlases which have maps of Africa neatly squeezed into one page. News editors look at the map, see Accra within six inches of Northern Rhodesia, and send off a breezy query...
Ordinary communications are a test of patience. "Not so long ago, it was the custom in Africa to send a message in a cleft stick carried by a native runner and then sit back and wait six months for the answer. Now, things are slightly better, but not much. In the Union of South Africa, the most advanced country on the 'Dark Continent.' a telephone conversation even between Capetown and Johannesburg is an ordeal of waiting and cajolery. To phone Nairobi from Johannesburg, you must 1) book the call 24 hours in advance, 2) call via London." Even...
...membership list of St. Hubert's alone was enough to send the court reporters dashing for the telephones; it includes high lay officials of the Vatican, the son of Italy's Foreign Minister, the head of a great chemical trust, and many other big names. Muto named one prominent Roman, the wealthy, white-haired Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, as the leader of an international dope-smuggling ring who lured young girls to opium-drenched downfalls. When reporters reached the Milanese attorney's daughter, she calmly admitted that she had indeed once been the marchese...