Word: loft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considerable stir occurred in Yard circles Saturday when it was found that in anticipation of an attack on the Harvard Hall bell, newly located in the loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case...
...color schemes, to make a number of brilliant back stage sketches. One of these, a large water color of a lean, complacent French clown drawing on a huge pair of rose-colored gloves, would be worthy of attention if its author did not know the difference between a fly loft and a fire hydrant...
...chorus sings and there is special cello music. Greenery runs around the choir loft and lilies stand beside the pulpit. A Deacon searches vaguely for a name to fit the face he sees. Old men fumble for a forgotten pew. Tapers gutter in the hasty draft, while a child twists his father's watch chain...
...Shanghai piled into British steamers, anxious to get back as quickly as they could. Also at Nanking was the U. S. destroyer Simpson. As the first shells screamed over the city the Simpson hustled out of the way. At Shanghai martial law was declared; U. S. Marines put up loft. barbed wire fences across side streets, planted machine guns. Into the harbor came Japan's two other airplane carriers. Into the harbor came also four U. S. destroyers from Manila (see p. 9). Reports of the Nanking bombing, traced to the Japanese consular office, said that it was only...
...book deals with what Mr. Flynn thinks are corporate practices. Such famed cases are cited as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad scandals of 1925, the St. Louis & San Francisco revelations of 1913, the Good year Tire & Rubber reorganization in 1921. Modern examples are the Bethlehem bonus system, the Loft, Inc. management troubles in 1930, the Bank of United States failure and the fall of Banker Rogers Caldwell. Cyrus Stephen Eaton's recently shaken corporate pyra mid is also discussed adversely...