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Word: stringless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samuel Insull had been extradited by the Federal Government from Greece, he could have been tried only on the fraudulent bankruptcy charge. Instead he was deported from Turkey as an undesirable alien. As his deportation was stringless, he can be tried on any and all of the indictments. This delights the Government attorneys because they intend to try him first for using the mails to defraud. If he is acquitted on that charge, he will be tried under the bankruptcy law. If that also fails he will be turned over to Illinois to see what that State can do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Old Man Comes Home | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

...endowment that the Harkness gift will provide for Harvard houses. Yale will apply part of its funds to increasing the salaries of resident instructors, part to student aid that will cover the greater cost of living in the new quarters. It should be possible to use some of this stringless Wyeth bequest, not only to expand the Harvard faculty, but to make continuance with it more attractive to its present members, and particularly to those house residents who will be most closely in contact with students and whose high quality must be assured. Nothing could be more dismal than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE ENDOWMENT | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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