Word: checking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where they could get money enough to put their wavering company firmly on its feet. They had been sitting for a long time without finding a way out of their difficulties when, miraculously, a taL stranger walked into their sanctum, slapped down on the table a $20,000,000 check, said, "There is my letter of introduction...
States Lines." It went on to tell, in. seven more paragraphs, how Stowaway Salaza-check had been discovered aboard the Leviathan on her last eastern trip, clapped into Bargate Prison for two and one-half days, and shipped back again on the Leviathan...
...have his salary cut and have his office degraded to third-class. Citizens despaired; a third-class post office means no city mail delivery. In Chicago Ben Minturn, onetime Florentine schoolmate of O'Brien, read of his friend's predicament, wrote a letter, enclosed a check for $1,000, ordered $900 in 2 cent stamps, $100 in 5 cent stamps, saved the day. Shrewd Friend Minturn could, of course, exchange his stamps for cash at the nearest post office...
Score--Harvard 4, B. U. 0. Goals First period Wood, unassisted (3.22); Cross pass from Stubbs (6.22); Wood pass from Putnam (3.29), Cunningham, unassisted (19.18) Penalties--Garrison (tripping), Bergholtz (tripping), Wood (high stick), Elliot (tripping), Bergholtz (tripping), Elliot (tripping), Stubbs (tripping), Garrison (board check), Stubbs (tripping), Putnam (tripping), Elliot (tripping), Referees--Joe Foley and Jack Hutchins. Time Three 20-minute periods...
...east in the election of the committee which supervises the annual junior class dance. In the future at Yale all elections for committees in charge of traditional activities must muster two-thirds of the class as voters if the custom is to be continued. The ruling provides both a check upon undergraduate feeling toward the custom and a means of eliminating it if interest is lacking...