Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a 'key,' would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocket-books." There never has been, and so far as I know never will be, any remuneration connected with the tutorial services of the society here; nor, I believe, at any other place. . . . EDGAR M. HOOVER...
...Denver harbors more than a ghost of the rip-roaring West that was. The vocabulary has altered little. The barroom brawls that once fascinated a robust populace are not extinct. They have merely been transferred, noise, color and violence intact, to the newspapers. How that transfer came about, and how the latest, loudest, most violent brawl of all is progressing, is a story that begins in a small Chicago printshop at the time of the World's Fair...
From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a "key," would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal...
...this year's team are very good, Coach Farrell says, and the season will open with a rush. The board track at Soldiers Field has been erected during the vacation, and the men who have been running on bare ground and in the Hemenway Gymnasium will be able to transfer their energies to the Soldiers Field structure. This year the track has been erected about 50 yards back of its old position on account of the new Baseball Cage now in the process of construction...
...result of long careful study of Climatic and atmospheric conditions in different parts of the Southern Hemisphere, the Harvard Observatory had decided to transfer its southern station from Arequipa, Peru, to a site in South Africa, probably in or near Bloemfontein. It is expected that observations will begin there within a few months...