Word: lector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even more respected than the union leaders in those days were the lectores, or readers. Cigar workers contributed 25 cents a week to pay these so-called princes of the factories to read to them while they worked. Perched on a platform high above the cigar rollers, the lector (who earned the then exorbitant salary of $80 a week) would usually spend two hours in the morning reading newspapers and periodicals. After a hearty lunch, he would resume in the afternoon with the classics. The works of Victor Hugo, Cervantes, Emile Zola, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Shakespeare were all eagerly absorbed...
...screwed into the hull guide anglers to cool underground springs in ponds and lakes where fish like to congregate on hot summer days. Similarly, pH meters dragged at various depths help locate acidity "clines," or layers, where fish are apt to feed. Lake Systems Division's $630 Multi-C-Lector, in addition to measuring temperature and pH, also detects water clarity clines, using an underwater light meter. It then suggests which color lures are most likely to catch a fish...
...Undergraduate Council, Student/Faculty Committee on Housing. Mather House Council (Social Committee Chair). H/R Catholic Student Center (lector: St. Paul's Church). Mather Film Society...
...narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327. It is also a chronicle of the 14th century's religious wars, a history of monastic orders and a compendium of heretical movements. All of this is recounted in the language of theological disputation, Scholastic discourse and-caveat lector-Latin...
...Club Republican Club IOP lector St. Paul's Church Intramurals Winthrop Drama...