Word: containers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prisoners are not allowed to keep any personal effects. They are given rough underwear, "hickory" shirt, brogan shoes, socks, gray coat and pants (stripes are no longer used). Their cells, 7 ft. x 3 ft., 3 in. x 6 ft., 7 in., get no sunlight and contain only a cot, iron slop bucket, tin cup, electric bulb. Letter paper, books and newspapers can be obtained at the proper times...
Tonight's lineup for the Harvard team will contain not a single player who started the 1928 season. The three sophomores on the team. Upton, Farrell, and Rex replace Barbee, Rarper, and Green, of last year's five. Several men from the football squad, who were expected, have failed to turn up, so that there is an unusual amount of inexperienced material in tonight's contest. Captain O'Connell and Wenner are the veterans, the former a letterman and a senior while the latter, a junior, was a regniar at times during last season but failed to hold the position...
...aside folly, publicity and asininity, a part of Washington was obliged, therefore, to see if there might not be some wisdom in the Britten plan, however unconventional it seemed. Calmly examined, Mr. Britten's cablegram to Premier Baldwin, and the explanatory statement published with it, were found to contain the following points...
...Congai is reputed to contain a tragic significance. A half-French-half-native girl (Helen Menken) would rather be alone in the jungle with her native lover and their native child than have 100,000 Frenchmen at her feet. Circumstances, however, again and again prevent the fulfillment of her life wish and she ends up as the best congai of Indo-China-the congai of the French governor...
...very important function of the bindery is the repair work. Thousands of books, which need only minor repairs, from a page to be pasted in to resewing in its old cover, are repaired here. Many cases are made to contain old books, too worn to be rebound, in order to preserve them in the best possible condition. Thousands of boxes containing unbound material on the shelves are also made in the College bindery...