Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that. One of Postmaster General Farley's main reasons for getting back from politicking around the country was to address 1,550 members of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association, together with their 1,400 ladies, their 1,300 juniors, who convened last week in Washington...
Likewise, in considering courses, be open-minded. At Harvard you will find as little academic restriction as anywhere in the world of colleges Remember that as Freshmen you have your main chance to explore the curriculum and find what in it appeals most. Let your first year be one great survey course, in which you taste but not swallow. Later will come the specialization that enables you, in the Eliot tradition, to do one thing well. And by all means realize that academic life does not require twelve hours each day or that nothing but study is proper. Look around...
...from two to five in the afternoon, gradually recedes as evening draws on. Average course of the fever is six weeks, but it may disappear for several monthS, suddenly return, so that the average duration of the disease is reckoned at three to four months. Fatalities are few. The main aftereffect is weakening of the heart. Whether undulant fever causes abortion in humans is not yet known, but it does temporarily affect the genital tract...
Owing somewhere around $170,000, the ten-year-old publishing house of Covici-Friede last week was taken over by its printers, J. J. Little & Ives, who alone were in for a reported $103,000. Main asset of interest to creditors was Novelist John Steinbeck, ex-laborer and reporter whose tender tale of proletarian brutality, Of Mice and Men, had netted Covici-Friede about $35,000. How much Steinbeck was considered to be worth by publishers was disclosed last week when his contract was sold for $15,000 to Viking Press, which in addition gave Publisher Pascal Covici...
...practice in a Paris charity clinic. (He still clings to this job, which pays about $60 a month, although he has salted away some $25,000 in royalties.) These pages give readers a sickening jolt. But Celine's purpose is apparently to show that neither Ferdinand (his autobiographical main character) nor the world has improved since his boyhood...