Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession by reading Midland Teacher, organ of the State Teachers' Association. She also likes to read fiction, recently read Drums Along the Mohawk and Grapes of Wrath. She thought Grapes of Wrath "too frank...
...years ago, shocked into action by the silicosis scandal of Gauley Bridge, W. Va.* (TIME, Feb. 3, 1936), the National Committee for People's Rights (founded by Theodore Dreiser in 1931, supported by contributions from such literati as Louis Adamic, Hamilton Basso, John Chamberlain, Waldo Frank) sent a committee to Tri-State to study the health of the miners. Among the committee members: Economist James Raymond Walsh of Hobart College, Sociologist Esther Lucile Brown of the Russell Sage Foundation, Dr. Adelaide Helen Ross Smith, Manhattan silicosis expert, Socialite Sheldon Dick, Manhattan photographer...
That done, dark, horsy Melville President Ward Melville, son of the late Founder Frank (who fathered the idea of selling cheap, standard shoes at a fixed price), upped the price of his Thom McAn men's shoes 15? to $3.30 a pair. He intimated he was doing so for the good of the industry...
Potential material for the distance free style events are Bus Curwen, who prepped at Exeter, and Frank German, from Cleveland. Bob Stires also shapes up as a good distance swimmer but he seems versatile enough to serve as a general utility...
...Scandinavian invasion by Russia is at present not very probable," stated Frank S. Cawley, '10, associate professor of Scandinavian Literature, in viewing the outlook of the present conquest of Finland. "But", he added, "the sympathies of the Scandinavian countries are strongly with Finland and this latest Russian expansion is worrying them very much...