Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elimination of the weak points in the scholastic records of the Freshman class as disclosed in Dean Hanford's report which was published earlier in the year. The Administrative Board had previously decided that September examinations would no longer be acceptable for admission, and together with the two rulings show that a determined effort is being made towards raising the standards of the first-year class to a more satisfactory level...
Cushman, who has been rowing starboard all spring, is not quite as easy in the new position as some of the others but he is a good oarsman and if he can adapt himself to the other side of the boat he may show up better in the future. Neither Swaim nor Watts have figured much during the last week since both are known quantities and Coach Brown is now more interested in letting the unknown men prove their worth...
...royal palace at Kabul, Padishah Habibullah, as the muscular Bacha Sakao now calls himself, opened no boxes, neither tugged nor grunted. He, debonair, wears tight kid gloves to show his gentility, brandishes two loaded rifles to show his dexterity, wears plentiful ammunition against emergencies, rules most of Afghanistan...
This Edison trustee, Edward Dean Adams, then as now of Manhattan, was something of a scientist himself, as his later activities were to show. He had earned his B. S. degree at Norwich University, Northfield, Vt, and studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, during that school's first year, when it had no buildings of its own but only rented rooms in the midst of Boston. In 1882 he was a recently acquired young partner of the old New York banking firm of Winslow, Lanier & Co. Boston born and bred, he had already established among the more flamboyant...
Figures on hat sales show that many a thrifty U. S. citizen must wear old hats through new seasons, as U. S. hat consumption is only ½ a hat per capita per annum...