Word: shortly
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...built and occupied the house in 1762. Hicks was a carpenter by day and a burning patriot by both night and avocation. Although carpentry took his work-time, his days were rounded out by tax-collecting for the colonial government. Hicks' activities with the colonial treasury were cut short when funds intended for the British governor never reached Boston, and Hicks, more patriot than larcenist, was arraigned for alleged irregularities. Records of the trial have never been found, but the story has a logical and revealing conclusion in 1775, when Hicks, along with two comrades, were slain by the advancing...
...meetings will begin with a short summary of the work which has already been done by the Committee, and will be followed by an outline of the principal issues involved, Weld said. The main topics expected to come up for discussion are questions concerning future membership of the Council--the issue of membership by appointment and that of elections by Houses alone are a combination of House and class. An informal straw poll will be taken at each of the meetings to obtain a sample opinion on these questions...
...itself, despite the caliber of the opposition. With a few more weeks to learn the Barclay system, a few more sessions to get to know each other, and any sort of breaks at all, this team should do all right. Certainly no one around Cambridge should be selling it short...
Died. Cornelia T. Crosby, 93, who as a sickly girl was advised to "take huge doses of outdoors" for her health, became a six-foot Maine woods' guide and first woman to hold a Maine guide license; in Lewiston, Me. She modeled the first short-skirt sports costume for women (seven inches from the ground) at the National Sportsman Show of 1895, was credited with coining the phrase "Playground of the Nation" for her native state, was believed to have caught more fish with a fly than any other woman...
Streamlined now to a three year basis, the managerial work begins with the freshmen who compete for six weeks in order to act as manager for the Yale-Freshman football game. Six of the most capable are then chosen after the short spring practice session to compete in the second assistant, or sophomore competition...