Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bing" or "Klondike" is what convicts in Philadelphia's County Prison at suburban Holmesburg, Pa. call it: a narrow, thick-walled little brick cell block where fractious inmates are put for "treatment." It holds nine cells, each 8 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, 10 ft. high. In each cell are a small sink with one spigot, a "hopper" (toilet) and six bolts in the wall for cots. Walls & floor are rough concrete, doors sheet steel, with small ventilating holes at the bottom. Three windows and several small roof outlets comprise the ventilation of the building. Across a two-foot...
About 200 Freshmen turn out for football each fall, with coach Neil Stahley sending out the first call for the very afternoon of registration day. Enough prep school captains usually appear to make up a whole squad, but that does not mean that everyone is not given a chance, and the only way you will be able to find out whether your are another Barry Wood or Vornon Struck is to go out and so. You will be taught the Harlow system right from the start, and previous experience will not be as important as ordinarily thought...
...Russian-born Cleveland oilman and war veteran put in a long distance call for Japanese Ambassador Saito in Washington, got him on the line, pleaded with him to keep the peace, was assured there would be no Japanese-Russian war. Since then Cleveland's Abraham ("Abe") Pickus has been busy telephoning world diplomats, dictators and statesmen in a vigorous one-man campaign to bring about international amity. Although Chamberlain, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito of Japan and many another bigwig refused to talk, Veteran Pickus once was put through to Spain's Franco, another time to Hitler, whom he promptly...
...since April 1937-$25,000,000 in 4 ½%, ten-year Argentine bonds. Having already spent a rumored $50,000 to prepare the issue, the underwriters expected by noon to fix the price, parcel out the shares. At 11:45 tne telephone rang. The Argentine Government, said a spokesman calling from Buenos Aires, wished to call off the deal; "market conditions" were deemed unsatisfactory. Beyond that neither underwriters nor Government had anything to add. Henry S. Morgan, second son of Banker J. P., simply said: ''It is now a dead cock...
...side." but she liked the green countryside. She ridiculed the diminutive look of England (''the locomotives are only about thirty-four inches around the bust"), but came to like the homey atmosphere it gave. Oppressed by ''that death-in-life which the Britons . . . like to call English reserve," she nevertheless liked its complement, "the cream-of-mushroom-soup texture" of English leisureliness. And reserved children, after her friends' progressive-school brats, were a relief...