Word: turning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spectators will be required to show their Union membership cards or else special tickets signed by the boxing manager. In the interest of pure sport the management requests that any applause which may be forthcoming will not turn into "rowdyism" or "muckerism...
...five specialized competitions over one general competition need not be pointed out here. It is enough to show the abuses not only possible but probable in a hybrid of the two systems. Once partiality has crept into managership competition, confidence in them is destroyed and the best men will turn their abilities to cleaner fields...
...totals show five victories out of seven games for Harvard, and eight out of eleven for Yale; but the results of the Princeton and Dartmouth games turn the balance in favor of the University seven...
Many and various are the pursuits by which Columbia students earned last summer money amounting to $55,313. A report of P. C. Holter, chairman of the appointments committee of the institution, indicates that a willingness by students to turn any pleasure to financial account, aided them in increasing their earnings by $17,000 over those of the previous summer. Acting as companions to unfortunate possessors of wealth stands high among the places filled by the hard-working students. But playing pianos in summer hotels, working in drug stores, and even the questionable thrills of chauffering trolley cars were...
...leaf the signature of 'A. Lincoln,' with a note in his handwriting stating that it was 'Presented by his friend N. W. Edwards.' On the opposite page is a statement showing that it was given by Lincoln to his law-partner, W. H. Herndon, who in turn gave it to Mr. Fields on January 1, 1867, so that it comes to the College library by a direct descent. Into this copy Mr. Fields pasted a long letter from Lincoln, written at Washington on February 15, 1848, discussing the right of the President to act without consulting Congress, in time...