Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only on the U. S. No. 1 medical controversy but on laboratory, office, sickroom and operating room procedures, the heads of the A. M. A. broke their 16 min. 40 sec. silence, voted the A. M. A.'s first official endorsement of a commercial moving picture: "The Board of Trustees of the A. M. A. expresses sincere appreciation of the MARCH OF TIME'S Men of Medicine-1938 as excellent educational material revealing advance of medical science and service of medical science to the sick...
...call signals in the language of Euclid. The College has not fallen in with the parade of modern big-time intercollegiate athletics, it still has a rule against drinking, it proudly rejected the National Youth Administration's offer of aid to its students. But even Hamilton, on whose board of trustees sits Old Grad Alexander Woollcott, as well as Elihu Root Jr., has made some concessions to the times. Last year it dropped Latin and Greek as an entrance requirement, later abolished the fraternities' "Hell Week" (hazing of initiates). Last week it took as president a young...
Whether or not studio employes, from Greta Garbo to studio gatekeepers, can take their labor difficulties to the National Labor Relations Board has been a controversial subject in the cinema industry since the Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Act last year. Last week it was answered when the NLRB handed down a long-awaited decision involving Hollywood's 350 screen writers, most of whom make between $150 and $5,000 a week...
...length of iron pipe, about six inches in diameter, which he intended to use as a spectroscope tube. There were cobwebs in the pipe which had to be cleaned out. Dr. Wood obtained a cat, put the cat in the pipe, closed up that end by laying a board against it. The cat saw light at the opposite end, crawled through the tube and emerged, having cleaned out the cobwebs...
...minutes, a contract was signed. Among its provisions: Guild shop for editorial and business office employes, no discharges for economy for four months, vacations with pay after one year's service. Wage schedules, which the Guild refused to incorporate in the contract, were posted on the bulletin board. Typical wages: for reporters less than six months $16, after six months $18, after two years $24; for stenographers and clerks less than one year $12, after one year $13, after two years...