Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However, it still remains among the undesirables, and progress within the course is held at a minimum due to the failure to produce student interest. The greatest weakness seems to be its hasty survey of French authors. Joliet, the book provided for the purpose, is so condensed that for most writers it is a more encyclopedia of facts, which the student promptly forgets upon completion of the final, test. The class and examination time spent in covering a stipulated amount of Joliet each half year is almost completely wanted. The value of the work is negligible beyond its discussion...
Over the wall of the old Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet one night last week clambered three long-term prisoners. They had been detailed to early morning duty in the bakery, had overpowered a guard, made a ladder of oven poles, a cable of wire and tin cans. Guards, who had lain in wait for the break for three weeks, flashed floodlights, opened fire with machine guns as the last man swung down the cable. Paralyzed with fear, he hung for a moment in the glare before being swept off, slug-riddled. His two companions were also killed. When...
When Lillian Fisher, 15, of Joliet, Ill , developed infantile paralysis last week the Fisher physician telephoned long distance to Chicago's Durand Hospital for serum, heard Dr. George Howitt Weaver tell him to use parrot's blood instead. Immediately a parrot was bled. Five cubic centimetres were injected into Lillian Fisher. She improved. When Dr. Weaver heard about the injection he exclaimed: "The doctor just misunderstood me. I said parent's blood, not parrot's blood...
...Attorney General Mitchell brought suit last week to restrain the Elgin, Joliet, & Eastern ("Chicago Outer Belt Line") from transporting products of the U. S. Steel Corp. The commodities clause of the Interstate Commerce Act forbids a railroad to haul commodities manufactured by it or by its subsidiaries. Whether the reverse also holds?that a manufacturer may not own a railroad that hauls his freight? is the question, to determine which the Attorney General is bringing his suit. Should he win, U. S. Steel will be mightily embarrassed, for it will have to give up its control not only...
...large share of the translation work this year was assigned in Joliet's "Precis Illustre de la Litterature Francaise", a book, which, in addition to having the monotonous, inventory-like dullness of so many literary histories, affords mediocre training in vocabulary. The chief academic crime which the French Department committed was to require a knowledge of the subject matter of much of this book...