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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the school year the largest number of jobs is found in restaurants with typing jobs, entertainment positions, chore work, jobs as psychological subjects, chauffeur work, delivery work, and window washing following in order. Odd jobs always turn up, such as teaching chess, modeling for artists, or directing traffic...
Dominating the southern end of the quadrangle is massive Widener Library, third largest in the United States. Facing it at the north end is the Memorial Church, built in remembrance of Harvard's dead in the World War. In the southwest corner stands Lehman Hall, headquarters of Colonel Charles Apted, chief of the University's G-Men, and of the University bill-collectors...
...thousand Freshmen, selected from the largest group of applicants ever to seek admission to Harvard College, will register today in Memorial Hall...
...Evening Newspaper), Chinese-language edition of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury, which is owned by the Far East's No. 1 life insurer, bustling Cornelius Vander Starr. By printing pictures of Chinese resistance in West China, Ta Mei Wan Pao has run its circulation up to 100,000, largest in Shanghai. And since it announced its defiance of censorship the following things have happened...
...decisive battle many have called it. He does not deny Clive repaid himself handsomely for his trouble. First fruits of Plassey for Clive were $1,170,000. Clive's fortune when he returned to England shortly after was estimated at $6,000,000, one of the largest in the country. His wife's jewels were valued at $100,000 "at the very least." One Indian prince granted Clive $150,000 a year. Said witty Horace Walpole: "If a beggar asks charity, he says: 'Friend, I have no small brilliants about me.'" The cost of living, Walpole...