Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the approach of Easter there are thousands gathering in Jerusalem representing three of the great religions of the world. The Jews are there to celebrate the Passover and the Christians to celebrate their holiday, while the Moslems from the desert will go to Jerusalem for the pilgrimage of Nebi Musa. As a result of this coincidence of the religious festivals the British have been forced to take extraordinary police and military measures to insure the keeping of the peace...
...Graduate" suggests that the University declare a building holiday and, for five or ten years, devote all gifts to increases in scholarships or the lowering of fixed charges. He envisions the possibility of a ten million dollar fund whereby every year a thousand men who would otherwise enter another college would be enabled to come to Harvard on a complete equality with all. Such a fund is perhaps a Utopian dream. The proposal to employ such money as the University may acquire for an increase in scholarships and a lowering of charges, however, will have the solid support of undergraduates...
...Naval Holiday," After more than a fortnight of diplomatic pussyfooting, the text of the Franco-Italian naval agreement was finally published last week. It ran true to official forecasts that its main feature is a Franco-Italian "naval holiday" until...
Italian Concession, Under the new "naval holiday" arrangement France will have a supremacy over Italy of some 150,000 tons, but much of this in old or inefficient ships. Said His Excellency Benito Mussolini in Rome last week...
...worth of the responsibility he assigns them as prefects, as supervisors of the two daily "Job Assemblies," where they see to it that the school's work?scrubbing, window-washing, leaf-raking, everything but cooking?is performed properly. Four or five times a term a whole form gets a holiday, goes out to work on the school farm (one of Connecticut's finest) or to unload a carload of coal?anything that needs to be done...