Word: accountable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through rental income. Very few organizations are financially independent to the extent that they can afford to use their houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that initiation fees will have to be increased to so exorbitant a degree that membership will off that account be not desirable. The alternative will be for the fraternities and clubs to disband, after selling the old homestead at a considerable loss. Yours Truly, H. J. Freed...
...account for the observed rotation of the sun, Dr. Joffreys of England has recently proposed the theory that the planets were formed not through the tidal disruption of the sun by the near approach of another star, but by the actual glancing collision of our sun with another star. The shearing forces of such a collision could account for the rapid rotation...
...earth and of the universe before and beyond man's own little history. And with this storehouse it has affiliated research units to advance our knowledge of whatever is a too small or, too remote, or too old, or too complex for the human senses to make direct account...
Issue of Nov.111, p. 60. "If the hunted thing is in the middle of the picture it is killed.'5 From your description of the camera gun, the quoted statement may account for numerous alibis and limited bags. In wing shooting, the gun is never aimed directly at the object to be struck, except on the rare occasion of a straightaway bird, neither rising nor falling. For cross flight at 40 yards distance, it would be necessary to back that goose eight feet...
...problem of athletic organization is going to be a particularly important one when the House Plan gets definitely started. Next year it would be impracticable to attempt to superimpose house teams on class teams on account of the limited number of those who could take part, but eventually the problem will come up and will demand careful attention. The question as to who will deal with it is an important one. Will the house masters and tutors whose interests are admittedly on the academic side of the new development take time out of their regular duties to try to decide...