Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some Council members have expressed doubts about the practicability of mixing 'Cliffe women, who work under an honor system, with proctored Harvard blue book writers. Main reason behind referring the subject to Radcliffe was that the female contingent might feel hampered under such conditions...
...inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children are out from under--at Harvard, say--is truly alarming. Lost, she turns to the local women's club, gardening, or ladies' aid, and thinks of what...
...main attractions of the Boston area are the proximity of numerous universities and colleges whose facilities could be used by the Army and the wide extremes of New England weather which can approximate conditions almost anywhere in the world, Professor Hooton explained...
Just about everybody who can wield a stick will be playing lacrosse this afternoon. The varsity is tackling M.I.T. here at 4 o'clock, the Jayvees are prefacing the main event with a contest against the Narragansett Lacrosse Club slated for 3 o'clock, and the Freshmen are meeting Andover away...
...April 21 there was a meeting in the Kirkland Dining Hall to hear a summary of the main features of the new retirement plan, effective February 1948. In explaining how the new plan will work and the benefits derived, a lot of confusion has arisen in the minds of a great number of employees, especially those close to the compulsory retirement...