Word: maye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Each year on "Tap Day" at Yale (third Thursday in May) four telephone lines are laid from the "tombs" of the four senior societies to four unknown rooms on the "old campus" of Yale College so that potentates in the "tombs" may know how successfully the tapping is going for their society. Under the elms, 60 desired men are chosen, the telephones removed, the tomb-to-room connections severed...
...Unless he be a manager of a major sport, or hold an important office on a publication, no undergraduate may have a telephone in his dormitory room. To the few Yale telephone owners, a telephone is said to be a nuisance. Yalemen who have them are expected to take messages for other Yalemen, send telegrams, seek from professors forgotten assignments. C. Last week from New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. came more Yale telephone news. The publicity department had found that undergraduates at New Haven telephone more per capita than any other group of people in Connecticut. During the academic year...
Albers Bros., millers of cereals, flours, mixed feeds, importers and exporters of grain, sell their products under many brands ("Albers," "Peacock," "Del Monte," "Sunripe") and one of the chief brands is "Carnation Wheat Flakes." A rising generation, beneficiary of combination, may thus have childhood memories of Carnation milk upon Carnation cereal...
...year ago they declared an armistice upon another front Then Mr. Meyer, recently elected to generalship, made a truce with Shell in India after a great price-cutting was resulting from Socony's bringing Russian petroleum down to Bombay and Calcutta (TIME July 16, 1928). Now another armistice may be necessitated. Shell having duplicated Socony's Indian tactics and spent some $40,000,000 for the acquisition ol service stations in Socony's homeland...
...champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles champion with Maurice ("Comet"; McLoughlin Lean-faced George Martin Lott Jr. of Chicago was especially pleased with himself because he felt he had somewhat vindicated his crucial defeat in the Davis Cup singles at Paris in July...