Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with work books, in which they had to cross out lines that made no sense, paste appropriate objects on a Christmas tree...
...restaurant job helps tide her over the summer vacation (when she gets no salary) and pay for such extras as the dentist. She is proud of her improvements to the school. When she arrived, it had a big black stove in the centre. She got rid of that, made the room more habitable. Now it has white curtains with red ribbons at the windows, a new floor, a globe of the world hanging from the ceiling, a map stand, a phonograph (temporarily out of order) with a few records, a water cooler, a mirror, soap and paper towels. Until this...
...Health, is a potential menace to all Tri-State inhabitants. Only ways to prevent silicosis in the mines are to wet down the "working faces" and muck piles of zinc, ventilate the mines with fresh air, provide gas masks for the miners. Since the U. S. Bureau of Mines made a special study of the Tri-State sore spot 25 years ago, the report admits, the better mining companies have done much to improve silicosis precautions. But "wetting down," particularly in smaller mines, is not enforced, and gas masks are too uncomfortable for daily use. In 1927 a "model" silicosis...
From April to October each year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years...
With the publication date still six months away, the Senior Album Board has already laid the groundwork and even made a tentative plan of composition for the 1940 year book, John L. Donnell '40, the chairman, said last night...