Word: great
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...institution of such a plan of open tournaments will do much to settle the question of the supremacy of the courts also. While this is admittedly not a vital matter, still it will afford a great deal of satisfaction to tennis fans who have been arguing for a long time as to the relative merits of various professional and amateur players. Those who champion the cause of Karel Kozeluh, king of the professional world, will have an opportunity to see if their choice really is better than Henri Cochet, wizard of the amateur courts, or if, as many will loudly...
Another factor in the situation is the location of the common rooms in Lowell House. The Tutors' Room will be behind the high table, and at a considerable distance from the Students' Room. Again, name and position are not considerations of great importance; yet, when contrasted with Dunster House, in which the corresponding rooms are adjacent, and will be called simply "Large" and "Small" common rooms, Lowell House seems to be assuming a needlessly reserved attitude...
Start in life: Practicing law under the watchful eye of the late great Philander Chase Knox...
...wares. Thwarted by the Progressive Republican-Democratic coalition, he testily predicted the Tariff Bill's death. He is ever active to lower surtax rates on large incomes, to reduce the corporation tax. In general his fiscal policy is identical with that of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, his great and good friend, whom he has repeatedly defended against attacks by Senators Couzens of Michigan and Walsh of Montana...
Another Big Business errand last week took President Hoover to the great brown-panelled hall of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce across Lafayette Park from the White House. There under the bright flags of Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez and Cabot waited the 400 of U. S. industry-men like James Augustine Farrell (steel), Charles E. Bockus (coal), Matthew Scott Sloan (power), John G. Lonsdale (banking). Frank A. Seiberling (rubber), Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers), Frederick H. Ecker (insurance), Homer Lenoir Ferguson (shipbuilding). To a man they rose and cheered the President as he began to read them his speech...