Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Durant has left the status of businesses run by students as obscure as over. The report states that specially qualified business houses may be given permission to employ students through the Students Employment Office after a careful examination of their repute and financial solidity has been made. Does this mean, therefore, that enterprises managed by students must also prove their financial responsibility? If so, one or two student business organization may be able to satisfy the University, but the majority will not be so fortunate. It is wise of the University to take steps to prevent the recurrence...
...costly Jubilee amid Depression makes no sense. Scotland's temper is such that George V has canceled as quietly as possible, his announced Jubilee visit to Edinburgh. In , Glasgow's poorer districts many streets are plastered with Communist slogans and to venture there there would would mean a chorus of "Down with the King...
...fact that we now ask for arms equality with a little louder voice," twittered the Chancellor nervously, "does not mean that we propose to draw the sabre and bang it on the table...
...which all good Southerners insist on calling "The War Between the States." Chickamauga, Gettysburg, Shiloh, The Wilderness are names that mean more to the U. S. than Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood. The flood-tide of histories about the Civil War, with its cross-waves of controversial memoirs and the bickerings of aged generals, has passed, but good books on the subject are still being written. This week appeared the latest and one of the most readable...
...Before he got there he saw his pal cut in two by a freight car. After one voyage as a sailor he decided it was time to learn a trade, fixed on bricklaying. ("But there's diffulgultees getting into the bricklaying game, what I mean. You should of seen the runaround they hands me.") Eventually, in Chicago, he wangled his way into the union, learned the trade and began to make steady money. He married a pretty Polish waitress and felt everything was fine...