Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there idle land here? Main reason is lack of a railroad. U. S. Highway 40 crosses this basin. Two daily stages, Denver-Salt Lake, in summer; one in winter. There is a place for ambitious farmers here...
...room of Malcolm Pirnie '39 and Thomas O. Hunter '39, located in F entry which is next to the main entrance to the House, was not locked. Pirnie's wallet containing $4 was in his trousers, on a chair next to his bid. The light fingered intruder managed to enter and leave the bedroom without arousing anyone...
...found this review "rather horrifying." Wall Street found rather horrifying what SEC did next. After SEC Chairman William O. Douglas and New York Stock Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. had conferred, SEC issued a further reform program agreed on by the Exchange to prevent any more Whitney scandals. Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between a broker...
...reigns that extraordinary specimen of balanced brain, brawn, and emotion known as the "normal youth"; there doctors solicitously question him in efforts to learn why he is. But in the rear of the Dunster Court, the Harvard Dramatic Society will pursue its unpublicized course, considerably out of the main current of undergraduate activities, but nevertheless serving a valuable purpose in the limited circle for which it is organized...
...Gladiator" is the inevitable Joe E. Brown vehicle, overflowing with his stock mannerisms, his stock humor, and views of his tonsils. It is mildly amusing, although its main recommendation is Man Mountain Dean, whom some brilliant casting director has cast as Man Mountain Dean, a wrestler...