Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assigned a position in a police car on top of a neighboring hill, Nyhen and Morris served as the connecting station between City Hall, where relief direction centered, and the other operators working in the flooded district. They also relayed messages to outside stations giving the latest news from Haverhill...
Russell Grinnell will imitate his New Bedford forefathers by entering the fishing industry; Gladwin A. Hill, Transcript correspondent, will deal in ice, coal, and whimsy; and Frank E. Sweetser Jr., another journalist, will become a stenographer. Then Roger W. Drury is attracted by writing, Samuel J. Silberman by farming, and William H. M. Glazier by forestry...
...London last week British Broadcasting Corp. and Baird Television Ltd. rushed preparations to open an experimental television station this month in Alexandra Palace atop a hill in North London. About July 1, when manufacturers have had a chance to test their sets, the station is expected to start three-hour daily programs. British enthusiasts, who call themselves "televiewers," have been promised sets...
Whipped to a frenzy during Holy Week, the brothers assemble on Good Friday, each band with a lucky one chosen to be the Cristo. To the thin wail of the pipe and the dull sound of whips, they proceed to a hill of Calvary. The Cristo carries a heavy cross to which, on the hill, he is lashed so tightly that he turns black and puffy. The cross is hoisted up. The Cristo cries: "For the love of God, not with a rope ! Nail me ! Not with a rope ! For the love of God, nail...
...Student Council can arrive on Beacon Hill armed with scores of signatures favoring repeal, the lawmakers will sit up and take notice. Politicians are more sensitive to potential votes than to the high-minded doctrines of a dozen college presidents, for it is only the perfect organization of the paper dollar patriots that gives them their control. But when several thousand students add their weight to President Conant's plea on behalf of the faculty, the legislators may feel more inclined to take the abortive Oath Law off the statute books. Every student in the college should make an effort...