Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently the thieves picked the lock of the door leading from the balcony of the main room to the tower. From there a considerable climb up rickety ladders leads to the under side of the deck where the bell hangs. At that point a heavy cover over the hatchway leading to the deck is fastened down with two padlocks. These gave way to a hack-saw, providing access to the bell deck...
...recently, as he pointed out one of the major defects of modern education. Other institution of higher learning have been conscious of the same need for a greater unity, but none to date, with the exception of Bryn Mawr which last week joined together all the sciences under one main department, have advanced so ambitious and well-conceived a plan as that now being pushed by Dr. Conant...
...third day the convention got down to its main business: Social Change and Education. A Committee of Eleven, detailed to write the convention yearbook on that subject, had wrangled for two years, come back with eleven different opinions...
...Prize (1930) he said of Wolfe: "He may have a chance to be the greatest American writer. . . . In fact I don't see why he should not be one of the greatest world writers." No backscratcher, in Of Time and the River Author Wolfe replies: "A book like Main Street, which made such a stir, is like Main Street...
...what: "Currency or credit? Some of one, some of the other, but not currency inflation on any grand big scale. Probably credit inflation on a really big scale-main thing to watch...