Word: heeling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When his father and mother died in 1936, 20-year-old Robert Lee Bristow of Saluda, Va., inherited a share in a down-at-heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors...
...himself is a Delta Sigma Phi and Lambda Phi Epsilon and one saxophone player who finished school easily and received a degree. Of the original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...
...savings were none the less real, for he took a down-at-heel city and gave it desperately needed equipment, scores of new school buildings, sewage plants and incinerators, $7,000,000 worth of snow-removal equipment, more than double the number of playgrounds and dental clinics for children, new fire equipment that cut fire losses $2,000,000. His Park Commissioner Robert Moses (who replaced five such commissioners, one in each borough) laid out nearly 5,000 acres of new parks and two new municipal bathing beaches. His city law department cleaned up back litigation, much...
...worse. During all that time the bride did little but run up bills. For a number of years she has been going through the pockets of the Treasury for $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 a year in mail subsidies and steadily getting more down at the heel. Today 90% of U. S. merchant ships are over 15 years old and few are able to travel as much as 12 knots. Aside from oil tankers not one seagoing merchant vessel was built in the U. S. last year, and no general cargo type ship in 15 years...
...gainful tooth infection, keeping him from sleep. Because of an examination Thursday afternoon, Dick Grondahl was unable to play in the first contest with Dartmouth, and Dave Shean was one of the lineup Saturday with the grippe. Fort several weeks Art Johns has been troubled first with a spiked heel and then with a trick knee which has slowed the second saoker down considerably...