Word: thirteens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...others it only ignited the reputation of Elbert Gary as one of the shrewdest of the shrewd at winning cases in the confusion of the rebuilding city. Behind his shrewdness lay industry. His cross-examinations had the steady light of careful preparation rather than inspirational brilliance. In 1882, only thirteen years after he began private practice, his friends made him County Judge of Dupage County. After two four-year terms he refused a third carrying his title back to his own practice, which in 1852 began to be identified with the steel industry. How he conducted the incorporation...
...class are following expected tracks into business, law, and medicine, while a thoroughly normal 200 remain undecided. Although an extraordinary number of Seniors are still of a very tender age, the bulk of the class have passed their twenty-first and are waiting for their twenty-third birthday. Thirteen are married--a number which, though connotative to the minds of the superstitious, is far from surprisingly large. Lastly some 36 members of the class were born in foreign lands. The number seems large and the array of countries represented is imposing, but, on the other hand, half the class comes...
...changing the external appearance of Harvard and enlarging her material boundaries has seen no more important or successful erections than those imposing Georgian edifices which line the Cambridge banks of the Charles. The Freshman Dormitory System, eminently an expression of the new Harvard, has proved its worth. In thirteen years it has become so integral a part of the University that one wonders whether or not its value is restrictive to a larger Harvard--whether it would not have greatly added to that smaller and more centralized institution whose era preceded it. At any rate it is impossible to conceive...
...managed the freshman football team should gather maturity, develop judgment build up competence and experience as an executive, and then turn these all back, in 1914 to the service of Harvard's athletics as their graduate treasurer. In that office, until yesterday, he gave for thirteen years his full time, the first man ever to take this task as his only task, his only...
Sabin Carr, brilliant Yale pole-vaulter, broke his newly-established record of the B.A.A. meet, by clearing the bar at thirteen feet nine and one quarter inches. Vaulting with perfect form and ease, Carr cleared each height and left his previous world record below him in a wonderful exhibition...