Word: short
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four University 150-pound crews this afternoon over the Henley course on the Charles River Basin, the first and second lightweight crews will be picked by Coach F. R. Sullivan '27 for the first race of the season at Kent School on Wednesday, April 10. After a series of short races this afternoon the Freshman squad will also undergo a rearrangement...
...avowed leading aims of the new Houses has been to establish a social and intellectual concord between student and instructor, in short, to develop further President Lowell's conception of the University as a group of experienced and un-experienced students working together for the same end. It has been proposed to aid this aim by providing a common eating place to bring the men together. But contact between them would be decidedly hindered if one or the other had first to hurdle over the impediment of a "high table". The social touch in bringing tutor and student to dine...
...Short hauls to Rome, N. Y., long hauls to Albany, the oldtime "canawlers" of the Erie Canal made with boatloads of machinery and produce. It was a leisurely existence, drifting along four miles an hour behind stout teams that trudged the towpath. For a few months Dan'l Harrow, farmer, was a part of it. Clever with horses, he hired on as driver to a canal captain and then fell heir to the boat. For "cook," meaning servant, companion, and mistress-as-long-as-compatible, he hired vivacious Molly; for driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle...
...short, principal street is a building labeled The Foreign Club, a title which means nothing. Inside are crowded tables, covered with green cloths. On these tables anxious tourists play roulette, blackjack, poker, craps...
...tube works in Connecticut and New Jersey.* Thus in one year Phelps Dodge has added to its mining and smelting business, the refining of its own products as well as a comprehensive sales organization, and is reaching out to acquire an interest in the copper fabricating industries. In short, it is setting out to integrate a great vertical combination similar to that of Anaconda...