Word: sends
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Devices: To persuade both political parties to stand for a national Prohibition referendum. To send two letters, costing 5c each, to the 27,000,000 citizens who will register to vote next year. To defray the $3,000,000 which this letter campaign and other publicity would cost, by inviting citizens and corporations to contribute in proportion to what they would save per annum if a liquor tax should replace the income tax. Failing a national referendum, to obtain more state referenda...
...basis of the award was changed: no school preparing less than seven boys for college was allowed to enter the competition, and no longer was the competing school required to send any of its boys to Harvard. Moreover, the standing of the several schools in the records made by all the graduates in the contest was to be determined not by a given year, but by the achievement of the best seven from each school. The rating of the teams is based upon the highest average obtained in four College Entrance Examinations on subjects chosen by each of the team...
Having bought the last seat in the house that evening so the guarian of Ticket Windowe said the reporter enjoyed himself until the intermission, when he decided it was time to send in his card to the bright star of the protestless of "stage door Johnnies" was the medium and promised to have an answer after the show. He did have one Fair "Helen of Troy, New York" had written daintily...
...club or fraternity which has not elected a delegate to the Council may send one to the meeting, and may enter its team in the tournament...
...laid alongside a fact or will stand a shot of common sense. Yet this unreason infests the professorial mind, and the men who are given their responsible positions to teach youth to meet life prepared to understand it, deal with it and make the best of it, send their pupils after moonbeams, chimera and the blood-sweating behemoth...