Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Chamber of Deputies last week moved to appropriate funds to provide meagre board and care for the refugees, the chances are that France in the end will not be out one sou. The daily $185,000 bill can be met for a long time by expropriating the treasures the Loyalists deposited and shipped to France months ago. General Franco would like the money himself. He has hinted that he thought the refugees' care was not his baby. Rebel Spain has, in fact, made the refugee problem a bargaining point with the French Government. Furthermore...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
...became comptroller of the university at 29, its vice president at 34 and its youngest president at 39, nine years ago, had political aspirations, had been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for Governor or U. S. Senator, even bigger jobs. Would a university presidency be a springier board for a political leap than a bank presidency...
Problems that the board must surmount are varied; speeches must be more sharply worded than necessary on the stare; the number of characters speaking in one scene must be limited to prevent confusion; the time element must be surmounted; all sounds must be mentioned by the characters in the play so that they can be clearly recognized. All these factors contribute to the smoothness of the production and are apparent weaknesses in present radio drama...
Rusty Greenhood came through with the only Harvard win in Saturday night's concluding events in the individual championships of the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League, scoring 119.5 points to snare the high-board dive for the second consecutive year...