Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since a live man is better off than a dead one, and since Haywood Patterson will probably be safer behind bars for the next few years anyhow, the defense could count the verdict something of a triumph. In fairly good spirits Counsel Leibowitz was proceeding with the case of another Scottsboro boy when the prosecution suddenly challenged written medical testimony made at the second trial by a physician now too ill to go to court and substantiate it orally. Thereupon Judge Callahan indefinitely postponed all further trials, ordered the prisoners back to jail in Birmingham...
...Founder died in 1923. Spence School, endowed and incorporated, now occupies a nine-story uptown building, where its 26 boarders pay up to $2,200 to live & learn. The 174 day pupils arrive in limousines or in the school bus which shuttles swankly up & down Park Avenue. In the tight little world of metropolitan finishing schools, Spence has had its troubles. By 1932 it was undeniably losing ground to such rivals as Brearley, Chapin, Miss Hewitt's, Nightingale-Bamford. In alarm the trustees merged it with small Miss Chandor's School, under Valentine Laura Chandor. By the time...
...taken a long step forward in making air-conditioning practical. The glass house also contains another important Owens-Illinois product: spun glass, or glass wool, woven into thick mats and used as insulator of heat and sound. It is likely to be a long time before many people live in glass houses, but glass insulation is a much more immediate rabbit in the Owens-Illinois...
...weekend house party be held in Lowell House for the parents of men now in residence. Guests would be lodged in their sons' rooms or the rooms of their sons' friends, have their meals in the hall, enjoy access to the Common Room and the Library, and, in general, live for a short time under the same conditions as the students in the House. We should try to arrange some lectures by members of the staff, visits to places of interest in the University, and informal social gatherings. The best time would seem to be the end of the spring...
...What really kept them going was not the family lawyer's meagre disbursements but Elie's rich brother, a successful banker. When the bachelors' crazy household finally broke up from lack of funds, Elie was settled in a boarding house and Leon was sent to live in the keeper's lodge on his rich uncle's estate. Leon thought he was getting the best of it, but bad old Elie had the laugh...