Word: hills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parade of 2,000 men and women formed one morning last week below Capitol Hill and plodded grimly up it. Defying policemen, swarming into the House Office Building, they engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee...
...unique young man famed for his blond hair, loneliness and lack of ignoble motives. The actual lobbying, which usually consists in more or less furtive arguments by adroit advocates in the corridors and committee rooms of Congress, in this case took place at Boiling Field, far away from Capitol Hill. The lobbyist was Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his sole argument was an airplane. He took several score of Congressmen up for a fly. It seemed unlikely that any of them would ever thereafter vote against any air law that may be endorsed by Lobbyist Lindbergh...
Robert S. Hillyer '17, who is coming to the University to teach next year, has a volume of poetry announced among spring publications of the Viking Press. This most recent work of Hillyer's is called "The Seventh Hill" and will be reviewed in the next issue of the CRIMSON BOOKSHELF...
...experiment of concern to the outside world is being conducted by Doctors I. J. Henderson and D. B. Hill of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health respectively. The research is concerned with the efficiency of the human machine under varying conditions...
...devoled to efficiency as the present one, experimentation on der the auspices of Doctors Hill and that most fundamental machine of all, the human body, is becoming of increasing importance. Harvard has not lacked representatives in this new field of research. Earlier this year C. P. Yaglou of the Medical School conducted exhaustive experiments into the effects of temperature on human effectiveness. Another research is now going on under the auspices of Dictors Hill and Henderson of the Medical School and School of Public Health for the purpose of discovering the reactions of the bodily processes to various forms...