Word: checking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...divided alphabetically, according to their surnames, into six groups without regard to class or degree. Each group will be assigned a particular gateway through which alone it can enter. Each gateway will be plainly lettered to indicate which group is to use it. Inspectors at each gateway will check the voters as they pass through, and each inspectors will have an alphabetically arranged list containing only the names of those entitled to enter through that particular gateway...
Contrary to the sybilline warnings of hopeful pessimists, the First Battalion returned from the firing line with no casualties. In so far as the top sergeants could check up, the companies were in possession of the normal number of ears and digits, manual and pedal. In spite of their being armed--perhaps because of it--with rifles which the instructors graphically said were made to shoot around corners, the men made decently presentable scores. If the targets had been a regiment of Prussians, it is to be presumed that such shooting would have been at least sufficient to knock...
...distant, has become intensely acute. Through the warning voice of Mr. Hoover, pronouncing the doom of starvation for the world, the people have come to understand that abundant sustenance for life is not a purely natural good, springing without labor from the ground. Such understanding was necessary to check the wastefulness and the shortsightedness which have gone with our opulence. We have, as is clearly shown, profited by the understanding...
...college man does not drink. He gets drunk. The occasions of his getting drunk are varied and sporadic. A football victory, a visit to the metropolis, a check from home, the end of the examinations, a large party, a small party, may serve as the whywithal of a "spree." The aftermath consists largely in telling how much he drank, remembering with a triplicated record the sum of beverages which come his way. If a college man had no one to drink with, if he had no one to tell about it afterwards, he would be as abstinent as a sailor...
...Instructors, head monitors and first sergeants will submit to the Commandant's Office, 1 University Hall, a daily attendance report (using the prescribed form) of their respective section, lecture group or company, showing those present and absent. A check mark (x) will be made opposite the name of each cadet present and "abs" opposite the names of those absent. This report will be signed by the instructor, head monitor or first sergeant, and will be turned in on the same day as the meeting of the section...