Word: interests
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Interest clubs include the Circolo Italiano, German Club (Verein Turmwaochter), Cercle Francais, and Slavie Circle; the Pistol and Rifle clubs, which practice in the basement of Memorial Hall; and the Flying Club and Mountaineering Club...
...runs Senior Class elections and Senior Album elections. Of much more interest to Freshmen is the Council's financial guarantee of all Freshman extra-curricular activities, such as dances and the Freshman Red Book (annual yearbook). Besides these, it contributes to the support of the Freshman Smoker, the class get-together and fun-fest in the spring...
...only technological house cleaning has put U. S. Rubber in the black at this low rate of operations. Engineer Davis has swung a sharp hatchet cutting Rubber's debt from $101,572,400 to $42,144,000, its yearly interest bill from almost $6,000,000 to well under $2,000,000. Last May he got three insurance companies who own its debt to accept an interest cut from 4¼% to 3⅝% just as though he were hiring the money at the market...
Last spring Goodrich demanded a 12-14.8% wage cut, compromised on 5.7%. This spring it pruned interest, like U. S. Rubber, by getting a cheap six-year bank loan with which to retire $18,319,200 of 6% bonds...
...found too strong for the magazine, was brought out as a novel, fell flat despite Howells' enthusiastic review. Twenty-one years later De Forest rewrote it, tried unsuccessfully to persuade Harper to bring it out again. At last, prodded by renewed interest in the Civil War, the changed attitudes toward candor in fiction, the publishers have belatedly acknowledged that De Forest and Howells were right, that their predecessors and public opinion had been wrong...