Word: junior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first meeting of the Harvard Society of Biochemistry will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room, Formed in order to enable those interested in the sciences to meet others with the same interests, and to help correlate the various courses in biology, physics and chemistry, the society will meet approximately once monthly...
...name by which many a traditional U. S. school tries to hoax its pupils into the belief that they run their own affairs. Today one-fifth of the population of Czechoslovakia, some 2,680,000 students-1,832,000 in primary schools (grades 1 to 5), 428,000 in junior high schools (grades 6 to 9), 126,000 in secondary schools (grades 6 to 13) 243,000 in industrial, commercial and agricultural schools, 10,000 in teacher-training academies and 32,000 in the 28 schools of university rank-are being trained to want and practice democracy...
...What People Said are drawn from two of Athena's leading families. Idealistic Charles Aldington Carrough is a famed country editor and Progressive. His closest friend is persuasive, charming Banker Isaac Norssex. Their sons share the family friendship. Lee Norssex goes into his father's bank. Junior Carrough, a Rhodes Scholar, goes to work on his father's newspaper, marries a shrewd New York newspaper woman, is elected to the State legislature. Occasionally he backs some bond legislation or kills a news story at Lee's suggestion...
...heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena's ears. But such talk is only between Junior and his wife...
When the Norssex case breaks, Editor Carrough is in the Orient. Junior is relieved because he imagines his father, if he had been in Athena, would have stuck his neck out to defend his old friend. But when Editor Carrough returns, and is asked to use his personal influence to lighten old man Norssex' stiff sentence, he keeps his neck as firmly in his collar as any other Athena businessman...