Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Paul Buckley, being first duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is acquainted with Knowlton L. Ames of Chicago, Illinois, now a student at Princeton college, and that he played ball with said Ames in the summer of 1889, and that during said summer said Ames has to his personal knowledge received money for his service for ball playing; on one occasion the money for his services in a game between the "West Ends" and the "Whitings," (both of the Chicago City League), being paid to him, said Ames, directly by said Buckley; on another occasion said Buckley...
...Signed) PAUL BUCKLEY. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 12th day of November...
...great step toward reform in political methods was the "Corrupt Practice Act" passed by the English parliament in 1883. The chief points of this act are that each candidate shall file a sworn statement of all money he receives for election expenses, and of all money he spends and others spend for him. The advantage of this is that candidates will enter the struggle on equal terms. Furthermore election contests are to be decided in court and not by legislatures; in court a man can get the best possible hearing, and is bound to have his case decided...
...mistress. Dawdle and Rattles come aboard in disguise, bent on rescuing Constance. They have been informed of her capture by Rooney, porter of the Shorn Lamb, who has been a witness of most of the scenes of the preceding act. They join the pirates, and after being duly sworn in, concoct a plan of escape. Meanwhile the girls who were to have been Constance's bridesmaids appear on the deck in bathing dresses, having swum to the ship. Several very pretty dances follow, and then Dawdle manages to dispatch Rooney, who has also come aboard in disguise, to the captain...
...great disappointment to the New Haven students to be beaten in the last Harvard game. They had really felt quite sure of a victory, but Stagg had an off day, and the red-jerseyed men pounded his delivery badly. He is in prime condition now, and has sworn vengeance for the drubbing his pitching got before. No one here doubts his ability to outwit his opponents if he is in good condition. He has done it so often before that the faith in him is unbounded. There is little chance that Yale will lose the championship this year...