Word: top
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador to Belgium before stepping down to ministerial grade to accept the more important post at Ottawa. Deeply concerned was President Hoover at the way seasoned and experienced men are dropping out of the U. S. foreign service, apparently disappointed at their failure to make better progress to the top...
...Some $8,000 were collected, but the University authorities soon put a stop to such activities with the declaration that Harvard had a greater need for academic building development. The question was virtually dropped for more than a decade, but then Harvard's crying need once again broke into top-column print. It would require the services of a veritable Philo Vance to disclose the identity of those who have not only brought the problem of a new athletic building to the fore once again, but also cinched the completion of such a structure at Harvard...
...fall down at this point would mean Harvard's loss of this much-needed building. Negotiations between the H. A. A. and the College authorities followed; it was decided to draw upon the reserve coffers of the A. A. for the construction of the plant up to the top floor. The impracticability of such action was once again brought forward and this time the Corporation voted the B. A. A. freedom to draw on its surplus for the building's completion. The total cost of construction is estimated...
Perhaps the most interesting feature to the librarian is the bookstack. The lower stack is one unit of self-supporting steel structure from top to bottom. It is composed of vertical steel columns joined by horizontal beams which serve the purpose of supporting both the columns and the marble floors. The columns support the shelves, which are easily adjustable to hold different sizes of books...
...half of Yale's famous end combination of Hickok and Barres. After observing this pair go down under punts and play a bang up game against both Dartmouth and Princeton, Grantland Rice called them the best set of ends in the whole country. They will have to travel at top speed today, however, to outshine a brilliant Crimson end squad...