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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yahr finally called in the board of directors. The bargaining committee explained to the directors that, although not unionized, they had decided on concerted action because of President Yahr's policy of hiring young men and women at low pay and firing them to hire others when their length of service entitled them to pay rises. President Yahr denied that this was his policy, but after day-long conferences he capitulated, agreed to fire himself. They let him keep his stock and title of president...
...through the flute, but across its mouthpiece to the opposite edge. The edge vibrates, sets the whole column of air in the flute vibrating. Flute tones are made by this vibrating air column, just as violin tones are made by a vibrating string. Their pitch, similarly, depends upon the length of the air column. If a flautist wants a high note, he shortens his air column by opening one of the flute holes nearest the mouthpiece...
Still smiling as he swing into the last lap, "Butch" was a full half-length behind John Scruggs of Maysville, Ky. But he came in gamely in a bit under 15 minutes, panting: "I guess you boys...
...last week, after a change in the seatings, the Tiger crew went on a time trial and smashed their Lake Carnegio course record. Their confidence waned as they watched a Harvard Jayvee boat plow through sloppy water to make up a deficit of more than a length and cross the finish line in a blaze of glory...
...another mammal-like family, the herbivorous "two-tusker," or dicynodont, the Harvard party obtained a number of good skulls and skeletons. These peaceful lizards, six feet or so in length, were among the commonest reptiles in the Triassic period, but were rapidly killed off, probably by their meat-eating cynodont relatives and other carnivorous forms...