Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Glass, who since the death of Senator Fletcher has been senior member of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee with the right to become its chairman, made a difficult decision. Although banking has been his specialty for many years, he renounced his opportunity to become chief arbiter of future banking bills in order to retain his present chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee-and his hold on the New Deal's purse strings...
...only two things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior mid- shipmen. Said Chawbags: "I can never see that there is any more difference between a senior midshipman and a junior midshipman than there is between a large cowpat and a small cowpat." Occasionally the force of his anecdotes is somewhat weakened by the necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo...
...While a senior, Ellis received a gloomy prediction from the university physician who had tested his heart...
Kirkland House is the most lenient of all with application for women guests from the House office not being required before 1 o'clock on the day in question. Students unable to make this deadline can therafter make applications from the Senior Tutor...
Lowell House has the same time limit, but with written notice of the intention of receiving guests being required. On Sundays this application can be made with the Janitor, but on other days must be made from the House Master or Senior Tutor. Dunster House follows the same policy in point of time limit...