Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, money poured into the national political treasuries. The G. O. P. was first to announce a figure surpassing the $4,000,000 estimates set at the beginning of the campaign. National Republican Treasurer Joseph Randolph Nutt took pains to explain that he had collected in a double capacity, for the National Committee and for the State Committees. His double-entry books showed a total collection...
With the exception of a severe set-back at the hands of a strong Prince ton eleven, the Engineers have had a reasonably good record. The first two encounters went to Lehigh by 14 to 7 scores, with both St. John's College and the Pennsylvania Military College on the short end of the count. A fairly powerful Gettysburg combination next eked out a 7 to 0 win. Then came the Orange and Black debacle, but last Saturday there were marked signs of a Lehigh resorgimento when the team from Bethlehem triumphed over Muhienberg...
Governor Smith's election will give decided momentum to the liberalizing tendencies in American social economy. Rapplly, Smith has no set, doctrinaire principles," but possesses a mind free for new experience and responsive to its directions. During his long tenure of political leadership in Albany, he has achieved great things for liberal causes. Above all, he has proved that his temperament and the bent of his mind compel him to the ways of liberalism. He has done very much to improve labor and social economic conditions, particularly for women; under the fiercest tests, he has shown a deep understanding...
...seek to control the necessities of our common life for the common good. We can use government in the service of the worker with hand and brain, to bring to us all plenty of peace and freedom. That will never be done by two parties belonging to the same set of interests. To correct this dangerous, undemocratic situation, is a challenge to your generation...
Helen Wills recently set the Los Angeles Tennis Club clucking and fussing. They invited her to play at their tournament and in expectation had "some lovely silver" engraved with her name. She refused to attend, as player or spectator. Reason: blisters on her feet, which her mother feared might cause osteomyelitis (inflammation of the bone...