Word: transfer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whose prowess the Crimson football destinies now depend, 36 went to private prep schools, eight to high schools, and one is a transfer student from another university. Milton leads the van with a total of eleven representatives, Exeter is second with seven, Groton third with three, while Andover and Worcester Academy each supplies two. Taft, St. Paul's, St. Mark's Noble and Greenough, Loomis, Berkshire, Chestnut Hill Academy, New Prop, Roxbury, St. George's and Middlesex have one apiece...
...valleys and Harvard was no exception to the rest of the country. But in the same way the college was not far behind when railroads and better transportation drew the population into the once dangerous lowlands. The movement from the Yard to Mount Auburn Street started with the transfer of the athletic center to Soldiers Field in 1891 and was closely followed by the erection of the famous "Gold Coast" dormitories...
What had happened evidently was that in Denver some person or persons unknown, having knowledge of the confidential code through which bankers transfer money, had written six coded wires, had fraudulently added the six Denver signatures. Banks customarily act upon these coded telegrams without checking back on them. Given a knowledge of the code and a willingness to misuse it, there was no great difficulty in working the $500,000 fraud. Sole precaution on the part of the defrauder was that the money should be collected before the trickery was discovered...
Midnight was the hour at which there came automatically into effect the new Tacna-Arica Treaty (TIME, May 27) by which the disputed province of Tacna-Arica is partitioned, Chile keeping Arica and ceding Tacna to Peru. To make this transfer doubly binding, doubly impressive, Government property in Tacna Province was divided into 138 parcels, each to be signed over separately. As midnight tolled, the pen-scratching tournament began...
Physical Exercise & Health. One hour's exercise a day for a week increases the capacity of the lungs and their ability to transfer oxygen from the air to the lungs. The maximum result develops in five to six weeks of such exercise. If after such period physical exercise is neglected altogether, the gain in power lasts for several months.?Connecticut's Edward Christian Schneider and Gordon C. Ring...