Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move to cooperate with the University's policy to eliminate tutoring school activity, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, sent letters today to all coaches asking them to recommend the newly established Bureau of Supervision to students in scholastic difficulties...
...uncle learned this trick from the Eskimos, who have long indulged in hole-boring tactics in fishing. They do it through ice. The way we did it, through our boat, made it much more of a sporting proposition. I heartily recommend whifflepoof fishing to Mr. Miller if he wants to test his skill sometime when banana fish are out of season...
...committee recommended no specific legislation, but it did recommend a business policy: profit-sharing by which workers can share in the thumping harvests of fat years, pile up a competence against old age. (For a company which uses such methods...
...adjectives: unequal, unjust, unsound, fanatical, intolerable, inequitable, cockeyed, crackpot. Dr. Townsend's solace: three years ago the House had him sentenced for contempt (Franklin Roosevelt pardoned him) ; now his planacea put members on a piping political pan. Bob Doughton & Co. hastened next day to vote, in Committee, to recommend raising from $15 to $20 the maximum monthly handout by the Treasury to oldsters whose States pension them...
Scouts for the scouts are college baseball coaches. Some coaches are on the payroll of big-league clubs, some get commissions when players they recommend are signed up. Because their salaries are small (about one-sixth that of college football coaches) the practice of scouting is a welcome perquisite for baseball coaches, keeps many of them at a job hey otherwise might quit...