Word: greets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand Freshmen who greet the Yard for the first time on September 24th will begin an experience that is not just the start of another school year, but rather the commencement of a new phase of their lives. The new surroundings and environment, the new people with whom they will have to deal, and the altogether new responsibility for the ordering of their own affairs mark the end of school days and the beginning of the journey of adult life. And for all but a few the four years spent in Harvard will be an experience rich in itself...
...nearby Roosevelt Park, throngs of Catholics and non-Catholics presently heard the Catholic Governor greet his new spiritual leader with a reference to Michigan's "weighty problems of social and economic adjustment.'' Said Governor Murphy: "To the solution of these problems Archbishop Mooney brings a world of wisdom, of kindly understanding and of farseeing vision. I rejoice in the thought of the great good that a shepherd of his spiritual content can do for the people in encouraging the Christian approach to their problems...
...personality test"-i.e., be reasonably personable as well as amiable. Because Superintendent H. W. Quinlan of the New Haven's dining cars believes that grace of carriage and movement is important, he insists on modeling experience as well as hostess experience. Candidates must learn correct diction, how to greet incoming diners, how to make menu suggestions, how to keep tabs on cooks and waiters. The dining car stewards will be free to spend most of their time in the 2x4 kitchen...
...Chicago, Burlington & Quincy calls its hostesses "Zephyrettes." They wear pearl-grey uniforms, overseas caps, flowers in buttonholes. Before the train starts they greet passengers on the platform, show them to their locations, go through the train with the conductor to see that everyone is comfortable. The Burlington once had 1,500 applications (some from Mexico and Canada) for twelve jobs. A Burlington requirement, in addition to amiability and pleasing appearance, is "self-confidence...
Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal Dunkards have succeeded in lifting restrictions against such "vanities" as automobiles, telephones...