Word: checking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easily succumbed to on the part of the advocates of the House Plan to emphasize the house aspect and forget Yale. We want no heterogeneous conglomeration of houses like Oxford--no Ballot, Chariot's or Trinity: we want Yale, transcending the whole and holding this house aspect in check when it comes to these questions of loyalty and rivalry...
Through the closer cooperation of Freshmen Deans Chauncey and Hindmarsh, the Advisers were able to visit personally some 114 students who came from foreign countries, entered on condition, or for some other reason, needed special assistance. Later in the year, each adviser will check up his advisees' records in order to learn whether they have further need...
...check room boy in a Manhattan hotel sufficient fees will be loaned so that he may continue an education already advanced despite the difficulty of working 63 hours a week...
Returning to Chicago, Burns met Emily del Pino (later Mrs. Burns, the plaintiff), who was then "37, of good character and morals ... in possession of a flourishing business and doing well." Burns boarded at her mother's house, during which time he illegally obtained pay-check money while timekeeper for a construction company. He borrowed $2,500 from Emily del Pino, started his magazine. He never paid back the money, she says. After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister...
...Telluride's condition, they perhaps received their money in the only manner that it could ever have been obtained. Should they consider it their duty to their depositors to keep this money, many a fine legal mind will soon be struggling with the problem of whether a certified check is credit or money?whether it is a promise to pay or an actual payment...