Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant has broken the back of the English department: four of its most brilliant young men must leave. He has been only a little less cruel with the Government department, where two assistant professors have been crated for the dreary trip to the hinterlands...
Rich & Poor. Last year the millionth Mayo patient passed through the Clinic doors. In a half-century of partnership the Mayos have made millions, but they have restricted themselves and their staff to small salaries, have turned back their surplus profits to the Clinic and the University of Minnesota. In 1915 they founded a graduate school in connection with the University of Minnesota. Shrewd, dignified Dr. Will, now 77 and recovering in Rochester from a gastric ulcer operation, has managed finances with an eagle eye. Poor patients (approximately one-fourth of the Mayo practice) pay nothing, sometimes get checks instead...
...even as his dutiful eye shuttles back and forth through the blurred, meaningless words of the paragraph, he is with her--somewhere...
...Crimson team, composed of Ben Forhes at one, Gay Dillingham at two, Ben Dillingham at three, and Cam Burage at back, with Jack Lewis as alternate, led four to three at half time...
...wipe her red hands upon her apron and smile down at the first bewildering crocus. Along Marlborough Street the neat old gentlemen will have belatedly hung up their Chesterfields and derbies. Somewhere, yes. But here? Here there is a terrifying notice posted. So swivel your eyes and your thoughts back to this book, Vag. The notice say: "Regular meetings in all courses will conclude...