Word: topped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reports to date of the committee in charge of the drive for the Endowment Fund among the undergraduates of the College show that a total of $60,021.66 has been subscribed. Figures show that with four exceptions every dormitory went over the top with 100 percent subscribed...
...reference is to the top of the Fifth avenue buses, and the heart of the matter is tobacco. Henceforth it is not to be the open top, nor quite the closed top, but a sort of semi-hemi-preferential top with the two left-hand seats and the three right-hand seats open to smokers--if no one else wants them first. The Fifth Avenue Coach Company did not take action until after a plebiscite among its passengers. The opinions of those who ride on the buses because they can smoke on the upper deck, and the opinions of those...
...result of the subscriptions turned in to date in the College Endowment Fund Drive, Apthorp House, 9 Bew street, 6 Holyoke street, Stoughton, Wadsworth House and Weld are over the top with 100 percent subscribed...
...four contending football teams for tip top Eastern honors continue to run neck and neck to the tape. Penn State, which until last Saturday had a slight lead on the others inasmuch as it had not been even tied this season, struck a determined obstacle in "Tom" Keddy's Le high eleven and was nearly eliminated from the contest. At any rate it lost much prestige for the conquerors of Nebraska, Dartmouth and Penn. It was fairly outplayed by a "midget" eleven of wildcats which did not have any too enviable a record, having been defeated by the Washington...
...remained, however, for Mr. Elmer A. Sperry to so master the riddle of the spinning top that he could harness the earth till it should compell his gyroscope to swing into the meridian no matter in what direction it may have been initially, and thus make possible a non-magnetic compass. Such an instrument removes all uncertainly about the location of the north magnetic pole of the earth since it indicates always true north and depends upon the rotation of the earth as an astronomical body for its directive force. This is perhaps the latest vindication of the fact that...