Word: sorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appears that Major Moore wrote his article for the Alumni Bulletin simply to show the distribution of seats at the Yale game; and that the inadequacy of seats was put in as a sort of revelatory after-thought, perhaps to amuse the graduates. If this was so, then Major Moore has closed his letter with a strangely irrelevant argument. He shows that additional seats in the Stadium--he didn't "urge the need" of them in the Bulletin; though he does so now--will help pay for the gymnasium, swimming pool, and other athletic equipment...
Sirs: Alice Foote MacDougall [on the LETTERS page of the Nov. 16 issue] expresses what to my mind is a defect in TIME-your style of English, "Came the President," "Sneezed the Senator" and all that sort of thing. It is grotesque, unattractive and as irritating as a sore thumb...
Readers of the New York Daily News were intrigued last Saturday morning by a headline. Those who were able to spell out the glaring slur read it aloud to their friends and chuckled; it was a good line, the sort of thing that makes the News their favorite newspaper. They bent to scrutinize the photograph that was printed below- a picture of the funeral of the Queen Mother, Alexandra. There were King George and the Prince of Wales stalking with solemn strides; there were King Christian of Denmark in a plumed hat, the King of Norway and the King...
...this year the first plan of this sort operated by the Company will terminate, and title to about $40,000,000 of stock will pass to about 16,000 subscribing employes. All told, about 900,000 shares will have been distributed to employes during the past five years. This total, though only about 5% of the outstanding common stock, is nevertheless the largest aggregation of shares except for the holdings of John D. Rockefeller...
...chairman of the 1925 Athletic Advisory Committee, declared yesterday that he would not be a candidate for reelection in 1926. This announcement follows directly the resignations of Head Coach Fisher and Coach Daley. Mr. Logan stated that his relations with the Advisory Committee had been of the pleasantest sort. Besides the selection of a new football and baseball coach, the Committee is therefore confronted with the problem of choosing a new Chairman for their body...