Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight U. S. college fraternities held their annual interfraternity conference in Manhattan. The delegates had a few headaches. Fraternities found it harder these days to fill their expensive houses, make ends meet. The burgeoning of new house plans in private Eastern colleges, the current revival of dormitory building in State universities made their own houses less dazzling. At Wisconsin, dormitories had gone so far as to take over a time-honored fraternity function: they gave their boys instruction in table manners...
Pennsylvania's Eastern State Penitentiary is old enough to be remembered with horror by Dickens in his American Notes (1842). It was known then, as now, as the Cherry Hill prison. One night last week, over Philadelphia's KYW, the inmates of 110-year-old Cherry Hill staged their Christmas musicale. Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls. But the tune that dampened the eyes of Warden Herbert ("Cap") Smith and beefy Deputy Tom Meikrantz was a Chinese prisoner...
...Mason Walter, operating trustee of Chicago Great Western, one of the chronically anemic roads in the great midwestern bankruptcy belt. Mr. Walter's complaint: the Midwestern roads are not getting their fair share of charges on transcontinental hauls, get a lean, unprofitable cut while the roads at the eastern and western ends take the big slices...
...their own automobiles. But a big piece was lost to U. S. bus lines and a big reason for the loss was the failure of the railroads to provide up-to-date accommodations for day coach passengers soon enough or to charge competitive fares. In the 1938 recession eastern roads actually upped fares. Bus lines quickly placed orders for new equipment...
Bussc has started both games the Tigers have played thus far, with Bob Stewart and Dave Lloyd up front and Dan Carmichael and Captain Ed Green at guard. All of his mates are veterans from the team that tied for fourth place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League standing after coming along fast...