Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Washington at Seattle and Friday Harbor, wrote me that Matthew Fontaine Maury and Williard Gibbs were two of the world's most unappreciated geniuses. I had never heard more of Gibbs than his name, and was casting about in my mind to know how to get the best slant on him in the least time and with the most efficient method. Lo and behold: TIME'S Gibbs article [TIME, Feb. 20], for which my personal thanks. This is service with a vengeance...
...comment on your statement that many folk dance steps are as old as "all get-out." Actually they are older I think. I am unable to place "all get-out" accurately in time but I should not put it earlier than the covered-wagon period. The folk lore often expressed is probably thus: a wheel comes unstuck and papa has to fix it. "All get out" he calls and the family climb down with patient resignation...
This is only the theory of a friendly stranger. If you or any of your readers can give me the real low down on all get-out, I'll be a regular subscriber even when I get back to England...
...have an eight-hour day. Before the union began organizing us, the College made us work our sight hours at any time it wanted. Some days we would get our jobs done early and other times we would have to work until 9:30 at night. The union put a stop to all this and forced the College to give us set hours...
...added that she wished the University would agree to a closed shop. "Right now, we union girls are helping the non-union members to get better contracts from the College. I don't see why all waitresses shouldn't help to pay for our activities...