Word: becks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other five; and the first year it had the distinction of being a decided favorite. Among seven Houses one absolute favorite will never exist but when Lowell and Dunster first opened the latter had by far the larger list of applicants. Indeed, Mr. Greenough had the College at his Beck and call. That first year advantage was, fortunately, largely wiped out when the other Houses came into existence and the prestige gained then has really hindered rather than aided Dunster in the race for members...
...jumping. The length of a jump on sMs depends largely on the topography of the hill. Ski-jumpers, who use especially wide skis with three grooves instead of one, to make them go straight, are judged on form. Ski-jump judges first picked 19-year-old Hans Beck of Kongsberg, Norway for two jumps of 232 and 208 feet. Then they changed their decision, ranked him second to another 19-year-old Kongs-bergian, Birger Ruud. Red-cheeked Ruud, who works in a gun factory, and whose older brother, Sigmund, finished seventh in the same event went...
...Economic Growth and Sectional Differentiation 1840-60." Mr. Beck, New Lecture Hall...
...Received from Pennsylvania's Beck a resolution proposing State legalization of liquor and selected by House Wets for a test of their strength...
...country. There is nothing natural about city life in America today. All entertainment is artificial, it can be obtained with no more effort than the muscular activity involved in loosening the purse strings. Theatres, dances, movies, speakeasies, tabloids, all the conventional forms of amusement are at the beck and call of every man. His mind is a blank screen upon which no impressions are made; his intellect has been allowed to lie fallow for years. Beyond this there is the acceleration of every life. There is no relaxation, no tranquility, no time to take stock, and no stock to take...