Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians. In the Illinois Senate he introduced only one bill, providing for a legislative council to map the work of the next session. At the moment he is specifically advocating more civil service, "perfecting" the National Labor Relations Board, "birth control" of bills in Congress, giving ex-Presidents seats in the Senate. He also wants to abolish the job he is running for by reapportioning the State's Congressional districts...
...largely by the Lowell Institute. Tuition charges are $2.50 or $5.00 per course. Courses carry credit it toward the degree of Adjunct in Arts at Harvard. sion Commission include Harvard, Tufts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Boston University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Wellesley, Simmons, Lowell Institute, Massachusetts Board of Education, and the Boston School Committee...
Little Hall-home of a number of Freshmen non-residents in the Yard, and also housing a few Faculty offices. Holyoke House--home of a number of the Tutorial board, Department offices, and a number of instructors offices...
...when the humidity stood steadily at 92 percent, the storm broke furiously at about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening, and lasted until 10 o'clock. During that time nothing was spared. Blasts of wind carried branches through the air. Football practice was abandoned when a ten foot strip of board fence came hurtling through the air toward C and D teams and the wooden grandstands retreated nine feet. A chimney fell off Harvard Hall and started the automatic sprinkler which in turn set off the fire alarm and drew three fire engines. Another chimney plunged through the roof...
...Louis, Stoyan lived with an uncle, in an apartment where six countrymen, haggard with overwork and economizing, slept in shifts. They worked in the railroad shop, made $1.50 a day, saved most of it. In a shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board $1 a week. In his spare time he hung out in a Greek coffee shop, whose proprietor used words like "status quo," "ukase," gave attentive Stoyan the valuable advice that "you must learn to read, write and speak English in one operation." He told him to read signs, wrappers on packages...