Word: class
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Herr Kreuger has raised many millions of dollars in foreign countries, none of his expansion program has been attended with any risk of loss of control. Class A shares of Kreuger & Toll, central Kreuger company, must be held by Swedes; Class B shares, permissible to foreigners, carry only one vote per thousand shares...
...bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White Star Line took these precautions, not because it had accepted an elephant as a first class passenger, but because a prospective passenger named Primo Carnera is proportioned like the giants of myth. Passenger Camera, an Italian pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held...
...general adoption of a laxer attitude on the part of school and college authorities would unquestionably give rise to the growth of a class of pseudo students whose only aim in going to a large institution would be to compete in athletics as long as they could stay, and then, reputation earned, to find employment, athletic or otherwise, on the basis...
...meeting was attended by the Junior eight of the Class of 1930 who are at present the only wearers of the Phi Beta Kappa key in the College...
...first details of the operation of the House Plan at Yale and Harvard become established a sharp contrast distinguishes the two experiments. It is a contrast which throws two concepts of the university into clear relief. The class has long been the medium through which Yale reached her sons; perhaps, then, it was to be expected that the House Plan in New Haven would follow tradition and develop around the class and not, as at Harvard, through the college itself...