Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Seeger of Patterson, New York; Loomis, Edward A. Drew of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Middlesex, Theodore C. Osborne of Boston, Massachusetts; Milton, Rogers B. Horgan of Washington, D. C.; Noble & Greenough, Robert A. Little of Bar Harbor, Maine; St. George's, Walter R. Lucas, Jr. of Providence, Rhode Island; St. Mark's, John L. Lyman of Waltham, Massachusetts; St. Paul's, Willard H. Griffin of Manchester, New Hampshire; Thayer, Lee W. Mather of Randolph, Massachusetts...
...intends to take; instead he is loftily informed that that is a matter which can be dealt with only after he comes back, when his case will be considered. Upon his return he is somewhat astounded to find his credits unmercifully cut and all his grades lowered by one mark. This is the subtle fashion in which the University lets it be known that it does not approve of Harvard men spending a year in a foreign school...
...against a resolution by President John L. Lewis of United Mine Workers to increase the powerful executive council from 11 to 25 so as to get new blood into the Federation's directorate. ¶ Heard President Green declare again: "We are moving now toward the 10,000,000 mark as the next goal in the creation of a constructive, organized force for the establishment of real order and cooperation in American industry." ¶ Advocated the fixing by Congress of a 30-hr, work week "in the event that re-employment is not accomplished through the action...
...This winter no German shall starve!" promised Adolf Hitler last month, and straightway set about raising a Winter Relief Fund of 500,000,000 marks ($175,000,000 Roosevelt), largest in German history. Though contributions are supposed to be "voluntary," resolute Storm Troops have enforced the principle that German workers must contribute 1% of their net wages, salaried employes a little more, housewives a monthly sum which they are required to save by denying their families one hearty Sunday dinner per month, substituting a meal which must not cost over 50 pfennigs per person. Officially the 500,000,000-mark...
...moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green. I made a normal landing with my parachute [in a forest] and walked back to the airfield where they greeted me with shouts of delight because they thought I was dead." Evceyef's record beat the previous mark, held by an Englishman, by more than a mile. The jolt suffered by Jumper Evceyef was no worse than if he had jumped from only 2,000 ft. and pulled his ripcord at 500. A man's body attains maximum velocity (120 m.p.h.) after falling 1,400 ft. Evceyef probably fell...