Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understand the reference to the women in the "lower brackets." I must belong to that class, but I've been trying to get out of that class. Does it mean that I can get help from the PWA so that I can have several women to help me? If I had that much help, I could take care of my home better and go to "higher brackets...
...seashore house on nearby Warwick Neck, a spacious Dutch Colonial mansion with weather-stained shingles and white columns only a field away from the estate of Rhode Island's rich U. S. Senator Peter Goelet Gerry. Also nearby was the swank yacht-going Warwick Country Club, to which belong John D. Rockefeller Jr., Harold S. Vanderbilt, many another bigwig. Senator Gerry and club members often graced Neighbor Rettich's lawn parties with their presence...
Sixteen hundred select U. S. doctors who belong to the American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case...
...certain class suddenly and bewilderingly find themselves. The authors do not endeavour to theorize on a plane of universality; whatever else they may be, they are conspicuously honest, and understand that their problem is simply to ascertain where, if anywhere at all, they and men like them belong...
Feeling that it must bow to the demands of a number of students, most of whom belong to Clubs, the University makes it possible to contract for seven, fourteen, or twenty-one meals per week, according to individual choice. But the grotesqueness of the rates, twenty-one meals costing $8.50 while fourteen meals cost $7.25, leads one to believe that, by means of making the saving ridiculously trivial, the University hopes to discourage students from joining Clubs...