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...became the most desirable of college residences. Seniors occupied Holworty exclusively for the next fifty years, and in 1873 there were 500 applications for the seven available rooms. The vacancies were filled by lot, and one instance is recorded of a student selling his Holworthy priority for a $150 bonus. But such immense popularity was not destined to last; by 1900, private baths, electric lights, and other luxuries had drawn wealthy students to the private Gold Coast houses on Mt. Auburn Street. Holworthy became "just another dormitory...
...incredible batting eye earned him a slot where he belonged: in the outfield. Summers he played American Legion ball. His batting average wavered between .824 and .609. When the Tigers signed him in the summer of 1953, no one questioned their decision to pay him a $35,000 bonus...
...working for an opposition paper. Lichty wants to stay near the newsroom he knows because he likes to keep his lampoonery of everyday situations tied firmly to the news. Reported the assistant to a corporation president in one recent Lichty cartoon: "A guaranteed annual wage, a guaranteed annual bonus, a guaranteed pension plan is fine with the employees, chief. Except they would like a guarantee you won't go broke." Lichty's one-panel situations take place everywhere, from the home (wife to husband: "I cook, wash dishes, keep house day after day and what...
...gradually developed after training. It was found that the greater the jigging the greater was the woman's efficiency . . . Rhythm is a help in any kind of repetitive work, and the rhythm in this occupation probably develops in an attempt to increase speed [since workers] are paid a bonus for work over a basic output. The newcomers, anxious to increase output, imitate the others and join in the jig. Some dislike it, others try to stop it, but without success . . . The correlation between jig and efficiency only means that working to rhythmic movements is more efficient than working without...
...ready with some tricks of his own. He was holding several passed bills that would not become law unless he signed them before the assembly adjourned. If Handley adjourned the senate at midnight, before the budget battle was settled, the Diener-held bills (including a politically potent bonus for Korean war veterans) would be void...