Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...technique of raising the S-51 and S-4 was wholly different. The dragging operation, which was the main job on the F4, was never used, and indeed the difference in size between 280 tons on the F4, and 1,000 tons on the S-51, ruled...
...Hearst Press behaved purely according to formula in helping to perpetuate the popular but erroneous idea, carefully revived by Prosecutor Pecora. that the present John P. Morgan is the main driving force of the House of Morgan. Also according to formula behaved the Scripps-Howard chain of 25 newspapers. Their formula being "liberalism." none must excel them in excoriation of unphilanthropic wealth. Their lead hound, the New York World Telegram, soon turned the predictable "revelations" of the investigation into a "shocking" scandal...
...board of managers opens its sessions silently, does business by taking the ''sense of the meeting." Swarthmore students dress simply, do not gad about Philadelphia as much as students from Haverford and U. of P. The men meet nightly in the ''Cracker Room" in their main dormitory. No beer is sold. This year the Swarthmore girls voted to disband their sororities, to which 75% belonged. Alumnae protested and the matter is still open. Yet Swarthmore is not all innocence. Two years ago Dean Alan C. Valentine, Rhodesman who is now master of Yale's Pierson...
...Another main difficulty is the fact that beer cannot be dispensed to persons under twenty-one. While the restaurants in Harvard Square and other locations are not troubled by this provision of the law. it is said that it may prove an insistent thorn in the side of the University, because of the great number of minors concentrated within these walls. Officials and others will use the certainty that the young are to be exposed to the evil influence as an argument against the introduction of the golden fluid. The obvious asininity of such arguments and of the clause...
...provide wider vocational training. Hunter girls are serious-minded. Hurdling fairly stiff entrance requirements, they are in college not for fun but for hard work. They play basketball and join sororities, societies or Menorah (Jewish cultural society) but Hunter's airs are not of the campus. Around the main building, an antiquated affair uptown between Park and Lexington Avenues, there is no campus to speak...