Word: fats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required to eat at least ten meals per week, at $5.50, in his college. For $2.50 more he could have all his meals there. Fraternity treasuries felt the pinch as members dropped away from dining rooms, their chief sources of income. Mortgage payments came hard, and so did the fat sums which every local chapter pays into its national headquarters. Fraternity ties, never overly strong, grew weaker as Yalemen found friends among their college-mates...
First they presented her with a fat, leather-bound book bulging with press comments on her resignation. Then one of them clapped a hand on her shoulder and solemnly announced: "You're under arrest." In silence she was led up to one of the tables, cleared of everybody save a judge. The charge against Miss Abbott: deserting 43,000,000 U. S. children. One by one her workers took the stand to give testimony. Attorney for Defendant Abbott offered in evidence the fact that her name was not listed in 500 Delinquent Women (TIME, Oct. 1). By unanimous vote...
...books weighty with case histories and sociological formulas Professor Sheldon Glueck of Harvard Law School and his scholarly wife Eleanor have told how 500 Criminal Careers began, how 1,000 Juvenile Delinquents got that way. In a third fine fat book they now tell why 500 Delinquent Women went wrong.* The publication closely follows conventions last week of the American Prison Association, the American Parole Association and the National Conference of Juvenile Agencies in Houston, Tex. For many of the jailers and reformers there the texts of the Gluecks are so much gospel...
...Tsarist Government paid no attention to Michurin. But Lenin encouraged him and the Soviet Commissariat gave him 20,000 acres which had belonged to a monastery, conferred on him the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner. Comrade Michurin never bothered about money, reputedly refused a fat offer to work in the U. S. Last fortnight he wrote to Dictator Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin, thanked him for raising "a lone experimenter, unrecognized and ridiculed, to the position of a leader and organizer...
...emotion in Auden is scorn: of those round-table experts "lecturing on navigation while the ship is going down"; of complacent citizens of "England, this country of ours where nobody is well"; of such tycoons as newspaper-owning Lord Rothermere-Beethameer, Beethameer, bully of Britain, With your face as fat as a farmer...