Word: file
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative board or to disagree that upper classmen must live up to the spirit of the law in not cutting too many classes, Mr. Hanford should have stated more simply and frankly the reasons that obviously lay behind his actions. Any one who has had to file so simple a document as a questionnaire or registration card realizes that a fairly large number of men make mistakes even on that. Still greater, then, is the chance of a goodly number of undergraduates misreading so long a statement. On the score of frankness, a bit less hocus-pocus about "not reporting...
...well-labeled suitcases, he marched inside the dingy red building, was searched and fingerprinted. Past the cell-block where ordinary jailbirds are cooped he was led into the mess hall reserved for "short-termers," then into the short-termers' dormitory. Next morning he took up his duties as file clerk. His jailer announced that he would be allowed outdoors "twice a week," could entertain visitors in the basement on Sunday night...
...small groups of vitally interested individuals to engage in a long legal battle with the government. To make it practically impossible, several of our "public servants" are vigorously pushing a bill to require the posting of bonds. The small man would thus have to mortgage everything he had to file a bond with astronomical figures...
Meanwhile the Prince was being trailed around Budapest by a file of cars a block long. Finally someone had the bright idea of telling him about Gellert's bath for men only. Edward posted to Gellert's as fast as he could, stripped, had a hot soak. Word spread quickly and all Budapest society flocked to the hotel café. But H. R. H. was satisfied where he was. When tea time came, he too had tea brought into the men's bath, like the morose old Magyars staring at him dully through the mist...
Last week, after four years of deficits, Baldwin's directors voted to file a petition to reorganize under section 77B of the Federal Bankruptcy Act. It was not altogether because of a lack of business. The company had had its best year since 1931, with orders for locomotives, Diesel engines, turbines, steel castings and other equipment totaling nearly $22,000,000 against $10,600,000 the year before. Baldwin's chief troubles were fixed charges and lack of working capital, Its cash account, which led investors in 1930 to look upon the company as impregnable, had dwindled...