Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work in "labor platoons" was sounded by the Government. The work offered, it was clearly stated, would be hard, manual. Dikes would be built along two small Saxon rivers whose chronic tendency is to overflow. No labor-saving devices would be used, labor being the project's main object. Each platoonsman would receive a wage of 50 pfennigs (12?) per day, could eat as much as he liked thrice daily, must sleep in labor platoon barracks, seeing his family only on weekends...
...professor of clinical medicine at the University of Kansas, a Dry State's main university, is Dr. Logan Clendening. Dr. Clendening is also a fellow of the American College of Physicians and a writer on medicine for newspapers. These facts gave piquancy and currency to his paraphrase last week of the late genial...
...best route from New York to West Point, according to an announcement made by the New York Central Railroad, in by way of the West Shore Railroad. The ferry service on the main line between Garrison and West Point is inadequate for the traffic anticipated. The football specials will leave as follows: Leave New York (foot Cortlandt Street), 10.45 a.m.; leave New York (foot West Forty-second Street), 11 A.M., 12 noon; leave Weehawken (West Shore Station), 11.15 A.M., 12.15 A.M.,; arrive West Point...
...advent of squash courts in the Hemenway and the old Freshman gymnasiums, 14 out of the 20 Linden Street courts will henceforth be given over to the Freshmen and members of the graduate schools. New locker rooms have been put in a basement that was excavated under the main building. The remaining six courts, those in the annex, along with the old locker and shower rooms, will be assigned to Adams House, comprising its share of athletic equipment...
From 11 o'clock until 2 o'clock the Peekskill-Bear Mountain Bridge and the main highway, route 9W, from there to West Point will be restricted for the use of north bound cars going to the game. After the game is over, or from 4 to 7 o'clock, this road will be reserved for the cars leaving West Point, thus accommodating the homebound traffic...