Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other stories among those that deserve the greatest commendation are C. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Camel's Back", Alice Duer Miller's "Slow Poison", L. H. Robbins "Professor Todd's used Car", and "Alma Mater" by O. F. Lewis. The last, as might be supposed from the title, is a college story, a narrative abreast of the progress in American university matters...
...what does the life of the undergraduate cibsist? It doesn't vary to any great extent; one goes to the same classes, hears the same lectures, sees the same faces; one cats at the same place every day, where all is familiar the to eye and the car--and the taste; in the extra-curriculum activities, football men go through monotonous practice after monotonous practice; managers have the same difficulties of administration; work on the papers becomes fundamentally the same scramble for copy. Finally one goes to the familiar room, fishes his pajamas from under the pillow--where the unhygienic...
...these cuts are real economies, such as those which come from increases in the efficiency of operating trains, stations, and yards. Others are not real--they are merely borrowing from the future. For example, the repair work on way structures and equipment has been radically curtailed. Locomotive and car shops have been partly or wholly closed, and programs for renewals of ties, rails and ballast have been reduced to a fraction of the requirements. Obviously this is deferred maintenance, which must be made up at increased cost later on. And, besides, when normal traffic is resumed, the equipment...
...talk, for as you know, much may be done by the change of even a letter. This was brought home to me by a heading in the paper of the small town where I lived. The heading was on an article announcing the retirement of an aged car conductor, and ran, 'Pinched Tickets for Twenty-five Years'--which may have been true but was careless...
Today at 5 o'clock the Freshman four-car boats will be put through time trials on the Basin...