Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plans to restore the 18-hr. speed for their two best trains late next month. Their officers believed that the last 20 years had produced such a large improvement in rail safety devices that the faster schedule could now be maintained without the old hazard. The New York Central main line is now equipped with automatic train control from end to end whereas the Pennsylvania employs a safety system of illuminated engine-cab signals...
...rhetorical "May we?" for "We want," Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur last week indicated the main solution which the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care will recommend next November...
...main Bulletin Board of Lowell House there is now hanging a little strip of silk. It is not a large or particularly brilliant spot of color but it represents all that is implicit in the name of Lowell House. It is the Lowell House tie. It will, perhaps, not add much to the sartorial splendor of the carefree house member. It will not spruce up the drabness of last years grey flannels. But it will convey a jaunty mark of distinction. In the drawing rooms of Back Bay hearts will palpitate as the Lowell tie swings into the receiving line...
When a visitor comes to Kirkland House it is to the Library, lodged in the old Hicks House on Boylston Street, that he is first taken. Connected with the main quadrangle by a flagrantly pea-green covered passage, the Library fills all three floors of the attractive colonial farm-house. Here a man can climb with his book up to the low-ceilinged attic rooms and can taste the joy of seclusion before an open-fire. With all its charm there are natural inconveniences, and perhaps for ordinary table-studying the other House libraries are better equipped. The selection...
...many were his creditors, how much they were owed will not be known for a long time. Ivar Kreuger's business life was known to only a handful of men. In making important transactions he usually revealed only part of the details to any one person. The main holdings of his companies are common knowledge, but it is certain that they also had many investments which have never been revealed. How much money he had, no one knew, not even himself. He said he did not care. Others said that next to Sir Basil Zaharoff he must have been...