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Word: janitors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live chicken (in the strict sense of the term) was left on Colonel Apted's hands Wednesday morning, when the Leverett House janitor refused to take it from the express...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Live Chicken Shipped to Leverett House Man Taken in Hand by Colonel Apted | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...declared, get only 25? an hour, against 29.1? in Connecticut's laundries, considered a sweated industry. But while student and alumni committees were being formed to help in the organizing drive, industrious Yale Daily News heelers reported the C.I.O. had a big job on its hands. Cracked a janitor: "Lewis [C.I.O.'s John L.] sent his son to Princeton. That's enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: C.I.O. to Yale | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Janitor Bob Lloyd, of Weld, when questioned concerning the facts, stated that as far as he knew nobody had been approached. "Even if they did come around they'd have to give an awfully good reason before I'd join up. A raise in pay wouldn't be enough. The University treats us all right on that score, and any raise in pay we'd get would be counteracted by the cost of the union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Janitors Denounce Rumors of University Employees' Union | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

Brought into the Lowell House janitor's office, the youths were confronted by two Yani patrolmen and three city police officers. After lengthy questioning they were taken to the Cambridge stationhouse to be returned to their parente...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Fourteen-Year Olds Are Caught Rifling Parked Cars | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...seems I can't concentrate. At least every time I look hard at a lecturer and try to absorb what he is saying, I go to sleep. The other day I got out of a nine o'clock at a quarter to two, and then only because the janitor tried to dust off my feet. And now with the first November Hours coming the twentieth of October, and with me asleep half the time, I'm worried. Things are so bad that I even go to sleep in tutoring school, and they haven't any janitor there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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