Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occasionally affected with mercy for the Englishman, whom he loves with a love based on understanding. The Britisher who builds his concrete house first and then bores holes in it for pipes and wiring, who decides to repair a highway on the day before a bank holiday receives no 'pooh-poohing' ridicule at his hands, only honest criticism. But his love does not carry him away to an optimism which will deny the possibility of Britain descending to the status of a lesser power, nor does it inspire him with the sort of Anglophilism which says that the English gentleman...
...loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case would best be solved by the University purchasing department...
...spring team will be composed both of members of last year's University team and of Freshmen, a large number of whom reported for practice before the holiday. On Saturday, April 30, this composite team will play Technology, and later in the season will face a number of semi-professional teams in the neighborhood of Boston...
...remove him. The chairman is often spokesman for his board. Typical of a chairman who uses his position as a rostrum is voluble Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Examples of well-known chairmen who have retired into the position are Charles Sumner Woolworth, 75, and Henry Holiday Timken. 64. Some chairmanships are frankly nominal. Such is James Anson Campbell's position as "chairman emeritus" of Youngstown Sheet & Tube and George O. Knapp's as "honorary chairman" of Union Carbide. Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr. is "honorary board chairman" of General Electric while the real chairmanship is held by active...
...main fighting strength of the Navy took a holiday last week. In the harbors of San Pedro'and San Diego. Calif., 152 grey vessels of the combined Scouting and Battle Forces swung lazily with the tide, while ship's boats and taxi launches plied among them like water fleas carrying most of the U. S. Fleet's 45.000 personnel to shore and liberty. One night a great officers' ball was held at Los Angeles, and during the week Fleet athletic championships-boxing, swimming, wrestling, rowing, baseball, basketball-flexed the muscles and raised the shouts of bluejackets...