Word: efforts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That by no means completed the list of securities advertised by J. P. Morgan. In their desperate effort to shore up their cracking pyramid in 1930, the Van Sweringens scraped their strong boxes for such items as 196 shares of Long Lake Co.. 250 shares of Huron Fourth Co., a past-due note of Higbee Co. for $1,292,534, second mortgage bonds of Cleveland Terminals Building Co. now in default, a $2,595,399 subordinated note of Van Sweringen Corp, due last...
...flood in Richard Barras' mine. Serious, stubborn, long-faced, intelligent, David won a scholarship, was the first of his family to escape Sleescale, where deep and ancient mines reached out under the sea. His father, who knew that the cutting was dangerous, had led an unsuccessful strike in an effort to compel the adoption of precautionary measures. The most remarkable incident in The Stars Look Down, and a powerful piece of writing in its own right, is Dr. Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped...
While the professional staff has been increased in an effort to meet the increasing demands made upon the Department, (there will be two physicians in the morning from 8.30 to 12 o'clock and two physicians and one surgeon in the afternoon from 1 to 5 o'clock) it is necessary to remind members of the University that, unless a rigid appointment system is set up, some waiting will at times be necessary before a doctor may be seen. This is not a situation peculiar to the Hygiene Department. The staff realizes that time should be an important item...
...same time the Committee was scrutinizing such buildings as Hemenway Gymnasium, Memorial Hall, the old KEX Club, and 68 Mt. Auburn Street in an effort to discover a building equipped with adequate facilities. Definite indications were received, however, from University officials to the effect that no funds to be used for this purpose would be forthcoming from the University...
Automatically, of course, many of the best of the dismally few great American poems have been included but a little more effort in trying to select only those would make the volume more interesting. We miss Ezra Pound, Archibald MacLeish, and Stephen Vincent Benet among the modern group and individual selections such as some of Emily Dickinson's "Life" beside the few cantos included here, Sidney Lanier's "The Marshes of Glynn", and Millay's "Wild Swans". To make room for these some of the emphasis could have been removed from Bryant and Longfellow and the volume would have been...