Word: turned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mitchell's choice to hurl for Harvard tibs afternoon, although there is a possibility that Willard Howard '28 may be on the mound when the game starts. According to present plans, however, Howard will pitch against Maine on Thursday, while J. N. Barbee '28 will take his turn at the rubber against Colgate at the end of the week...
...doing Mr. Kellogg at last gave a definite and constructive turn to the tedious correspondence which he has kept up on the subject of such a treaty with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (TIME, July 4, et seq,). Copies of the Briand-Kellogg correspondence were tactfully enclosed as background material by Secretary Kellogg in his notes to the Powers of last week. The whole point of the notes, however, was to submit to the Powers a tentative multilateral treaty text which is essentially Mr. Kellogg's own conception. Brief, this treaty text contains only three articles...
...romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...
...further advanced by reserving the choice of competitors until the examination has been taken. In other words, the ten best papers in each college would be compared, rather than the papers of ten men who may not necessarily represent the best the college has to offer. The chance to turn scholastic attainment to account for the glory of the college would thus be determined by the examinations themselves; the possibility of winning recognition would be open to all students taking the examinations; and the features of an intercollegiate sport contest would be practically eliminated. And not of least importance each...
While at Cambridge. Terry's chief extra-curriculum activity was on behalf of the Harvard Athletic Association. On the days of the big games several hundred grads would turn up at the Athletic Association's office asking for duplicates for the tickets they had losten route. It was always a difficult matter to sift out the legitimate ticket-holders from the imposters who took advantage of the situation, and the crowning achievement of Terry's memory was in 1915 when out of five hundred applicants he identified five hundred, and caught, red-handed, three imposters...