Word: term
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentiment is a term too overworked, too perverted with false connotations of sentimentality, for use in connection with this week-end; but, by whatever name it is called, the feeling exists. It is more than the attractive power of football, for a dozen teams can without contradiction proclaim themselves superior to the two that meet in the Stadium tomorrow; it is far stronger than mere intercollegiate rivalry, for this year no student mass-meetings are going into pre-game spasms of false ecstasy over the teams. Instead, the atmosphere is saner, more healthful, more desirable for everybody. The relations...
Other men who will be heard at different times during the term are Robert Whitten, city planner from New York City, and A. A. Shurtleff '96, an instructor in landscape architecture at Harvard during 1899-1906, adviser to the Metropolitan Planning Division of Boston from 1907 to 1909, and an adviser to the Boston Park Department since...
...General Mitchell detailed over the radio the Administration's plan for permanent prison betterment. It called for $6.500,000 to build five new Federal prisons: a 1,200-inmate penitentiary in the northeastern states, an industrial reformatory in the West for 1.200, three Federal jails to hold 500 short-term convicts each. The plan also projects reorganization of the parole system, development of prison industries, provision for education of prisoners...
...night the Lord Mayor may have private audience with George V or access to the Tower of London. His diamond sceptre recalls that London was a sovereign city before England had a Throne. In return for all this glory, to which he is elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets, pageants, shows. The new Lord Mayor, round and smiling Sir William Waterlow (not Waterloo), joint head of the potent printing firm of Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., spent at least...
Reactions. Editors, rejoicing in so controversial a question as Euthanasia (Greek term for "killing in mercy"), sent reporters last week to question the world-prominent on the Corbett verdict. The following names made the following answers...