Word: checked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also wanted the dignified old Palmer House, which was as dear to the hearts of Chicago's Gold Coast as the Plaza was to New Yorkers. To get it lock, stock and history, Hilton teamed up with Builder Henry Crown (TIME, Nov. 28) and signed the biggest check of his career-$7,500,000-as a down payment. For a total of $19,385,000 he picked up a hotel that had cost $25,800,000 to build on land worth $10,000,000. He thought that it was even a better bargain than the Stevens...
...Radcliffe officials and Cambridge police are still worried about the other $90 that has been stolen from Briggs during the fall. Police inspectors are now fingerprinting the ransacked pocketbooks, and they plan to check them against State criminal files and possibly Briggs residents...
...groups from getting into financial difficulties. Hence it has built up a network of financial supervision. For instance, there is a rule, new since the war, that no student group may carry on any activity outside the city limits of Cambridge without Dean's Office permission. And as a check against bankruptcy nearer home, the Dean's Office requires that an annual financial statement be submitted to it by every undergraduate organization...
Penalties--First period, Carmen (holding); Garrity (boardcheck). Second period, Bliss (cross check). Third period, none...
...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...