Word: sent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some strange coincidence, however, the chosen day was one which history had marred by tragedy. Exactly two years before, the seventeenth of December, the United States submarine S-4, while conducting a series of marine tests, met with the fatal accident which sent her like a plumb-line to the bottom. Four days later all forty members of a heroic crew were dead...
...latest developments of the House Plan which are indicated in Dean Greenough's letter sent to those applying for rooms in Dunster House, are really not surprising in view of the building plans. Nor would it be a cause for general amazement if applicants for Lowell House were to receive a similar letter...
...committee held a meeting to discuss plans for the compilation of class information. It announced that life-blanks will be sent out to all members of the Senior class in the near future. The committee requests that these blanks be filled out fully and carefully and returned to them as soon as possible in order to facilitate the gathering of material. These replies will constitute a permanent record of the class and it is urged that all members cooperate by being complete in their accounts of their college activities...
...when the opportunity of a priestly career fell in his way he seized it, extracted from it its advantages of education, social prestige, training in worldly affairs, then went his own picaresque way down the primrose path. At 18 he had already tasted jail because of a "dormitory scandal." Sent on a mission to Constantinople, he became emperor of the island of Corfu, returned to Venice as a gentleman of leisure, enjoyed a nun as his mistress, ran foul of the authorities for selling books on sorcery and was imprisoned in the "Leads" (il Piombi), famed Venetian jail so called...
...Redington told some 200 game commissioners and sportsmen about an experiment the Bureau had made to determine how far migratory wild birds fly each season. First, 100,000 birds were captured and numerically leg-banded. During the subsequent seasons 15,000 of these were recaptured or shot, their numbers sent to the Bureau...