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Word: maining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...probable that every application for usher will be accepted, but there are only 160 places available for ticket takers. The main basis of selection is that of experience, all men not having previous training being rejected. Although the number of applicants is high it does not approach the mid-depression figure of 800 requests to handle tickets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Near 800 Men Ask for Jobs As Ticket Takers and Ushers | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

David M. Little, former Dean and assistant Director of the Tercentenary, did a great deal of work in running the details of the main Celebration; he also supervised the running of the Undergraduate Exercises. William G. Land, assistant to Mr. Greene, did superb work in editing the Harvard Handbook; he also had a large share in organizing and running the Tercentenary Conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRUE HARVARD SPIRIT IN TYRICAS SETTING | 10/1/1936 | See Source »

...trouble of test matches to choose an International team, was not, properly speaking between Argentina and the U. S. It was between Argentina and Greentree, winner of the U. S. Open Championship, in which the best poloists in the U. S. were distributed among half a dozen teams. Main chance to restore U. S. faith in its poloists seemed last week to depend on whether substitutions-specifically, Winston Guest for John Hay Whitney at Back and Stewart Iglehart for Gerald Balding at No. 2- could be made before the next game in the two-out-of-three series. What Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 21-to-9 | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...tempest's teeth had snatched out main telephone lines, necessitated emergency connections. Distant operators relayed the call and in Manhattan a tiny voice answered: "Hello-United Feature Syndicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Columnist to Columnist | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...Three main problems of administration in the Graduate Schools await President Conant on his return from England. This year the new School of Public Administration, made possible by the gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Littauer, is Scheduled to take shape. This year also the Graduate School of Education has been reorganized. The curriculum will be more closely related to that of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and general examinations will largely supplant course credits in the pursuit of the degree. Finally, President Conant must continue his search for a Dean for the Law School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grand Total of 8,000 Expected Showing Increase Over Last Year's Attendance | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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