Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trustees with one hand accepted President Farrand's long-pending resignation, with the other elected his successor. He is Edmund Ezra Day who, as Director of the Social Sciences Division, is one of the five princes of potent Rockefeller Foundation. Dr. Day's Dartmouth classmates still call him "Rufus," because as a freshman he won a Rufus Choate Scholarship by totting up the astounding course average of 92%. "Rufus" Day continued his studying streak so well that he made Phi Beta Kappa, got a job teaching economics at Dartmouth year after graduation, married Emily Sophia Emerson, daughter...
...Chicago, after a lively party, departing guests playfully locked Host Robert Cheators in a second-story room. When Cheaters raised a window to call for help, he lost his balance, fell to his death...
...behind the wheel and cast about little searching glances under the scuttle, as one does when familiarizing oneself with the instrument layout and control locations of a new model. . . . I saw the red telltale bulb glow on the ignition switchboard. . . . The big engine had hesitated- 'hunted' we call it-for a second or two, whether because my cuff had caught the throttle lever and sharply shut it or whether, as Colonel Harker afterwards said, because of a fleeting, almost intangible carburation mood ... I do not know. At any rate there was no tremor, no noise; nothing...
Cars into Country. Most effective way of inoculating against unionism thus far discovered by the motormakers is to grant in some measure at least, what their workers really want. The union platforms call for stabilization of employment, which the companies are giving. They call for higher wage scales, which have been raised above the 1929 level, although the cost of living is still below that year. They call for annual earnings of $2,000 per worker. No small number of workers are already getting well over $1,500. They call for bonuses in proportion to profits. Chrysler voted...
...quick call for reinforcements brought out the men who apparently are retained just to wait for such an occurance, complete with a gasoline compound known in technical terms as aluminum paint remover. By 8 o'clock the next morning all was dull bronze again save for a suspicious silver daub on one foot, and due to Harvard's well-known aversion to early rising, nobody was the wiser...