Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that there would be no provision for the sinking fund to retire the national debt, which last year bit ?32,500,000 out of the Budget. Penny a Pint. As far as the British taxpayer was concerned, there was only one encouraging word in the Budget, that was Beer. The income tax remained at its old basic tax rate of five shillings in the pound-25%, the highest income tax in the world, though Chancellor Chamberlain offered a slight sop by restoring the old method of collecting in equal half-yearly installments instead of demanding three-quarters...
...Licensed beer sale still appears possible at Harvard, if the University will apply for a permit. Since the University has not yet requested a license, there has been no study of the technicalities involved, according to John E. Quinn, chairman of the Cambridge License Commission...
...legal provision that only one license could be granted to a single corporation, an obstacle previously raised to beer sale at Harvard, would not necessarily deprive Harvard of beer. Since all the dining halls are grouped around a central area, one license would serve for the seven Houses...
There were two bouts: Teutonia v. Zaringia; Shibellinia v. Rheno-Palatia. Members of the four fighting corps sat in separate groups, embroidered caps on their heads, colored ribbons across their chests, very solemn, very earnestly drinking beer. Official guests, something new for a student duel, were the Rector of the University, Dr. Willy Andreas, a group of professors, the chief of police of Heidelberg and the State's Attorney for Baden. The spectators' gallery was jammed with alumni, Nazis in uniform, even a few women...
...year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when he gets through work. Last week Leslie Pawson started off smoothly with a group bunched in third place. For 18 mi. he scampered lightly along, not plodding like most marathoners but running...