Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, an expansion in the market for teachers, in the elementary and secondary school area will compensate for the shrinkage of college faculties, C. Elwood Drake, acting principal of Newton High School said...
Speakers at this evening's forum will be: Dean Samuel T. Arnold, of Brown University; C. Elwood Drake, acting principal of Newton High School; and Francis Keppel '38. Dean of the Graduate School of Education...
...bodies, and not cadavers, is the business of Elwood C. Reeves, manager of the Springfield Commercial Body Co., Inc. in Cambridge, and he wants it understood that he's trying to interest Harvard buyers in an antique horse-drawn hearse only as a side line...
...land, buildings and equipment), and always makes money. In 1940, the gross take was $813,554, the net profit $32,903. In its best previous year, 2,039,000 customers passed through its rococo Princes' Gate. This year, after a look at the opening-day crowd, Manager Elwood Hughes guessed that in its two weeks the "Ex" would be visited by close to 3,000,000 customers. That, he sighed happily, would keep 250 men and 14 trucks busy 24 hours a day, just picking up candy wrappers and other debris...
With the enthusiasm of kids opening a lemonade stand, the tennis firm of Pauline Betz & Sarah Palfrey Cooke went into business. Sarah's tennis-playing husband, Elwood, had lined up 34 dates from New York to California. It looked like a good bet: the first pro competition between the two women who had ruled U.S. amateur tennis for six years. But Pauline and Sarah decided to give the customers something extra-a comedy act. When they played at schools (Barnard, Smith, Duke, etc.) Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged...