Word: set-back
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Which reminds us further of the statement by one Mr. White, Civil Service Commissioner down in Washington, that not since Andrew Jackson has Civil Service received such a set-back as in the present administration. Mr. Hurley got a job in the Railway Mail Service; Mr. Tague got a "beautiful floral piece". The President always does things in the nicest...
...Columbia bar in 1891. A Republican, he was appointed by President Hoover in 1929 to the District of Columbia's Supreme Court bench, where he moved up next year to be Chief Justice. From that bench last week he handed President Roosevelt's social program a major set-back by declaring the Railroad Retirement Act unconstitutional, granting an injunction against its operation...
Right now, of course, the team is suffering from a slight depression due to the set-back handed out by Holy Cross on Saturday. Yet, if any one stops to think about the way prospects looked at the beginning of the reason, there is cause for anything but complaint. When the squad reported to Casey and his staff on the opening day of practice, things really looked pretty grim. Captain Herman Gundlich was the only man who had had extensive Varsity experience, and with the exception of Shaun Kelly at right and ho was the only experienced linesman in Cambridge...
...based on the premise that crowds want to watch an open game. Forward passing is favored with a ball an inch thinner than last year. The first incomplete forward pass across the goal line (except on fourth down) no longer causes loss of the ball. The 5-yd. set-back for two incomplete passes in one series of downs has been removed. Because coaches last year decided that the defense had too many advantages, another rule, designed to popularize quick kicks, permits a punter to have a teammate hold the ball in position for a kick...
Holabird & Root designed a severe modern three-story set-back structure fronting the Outer Drive and connected with the existing building by five bridges over the Illinois Central Railroad tracks. Gallery walls will be movable, automobiles will be parked in the basement, escalators will carry visitors to air-conditioned floors. Light beams from sides and corners instead of top lights will illumine a collection of Monet, Davies, Vlaminck, Inness, etc. now stacked unseen in the basement...