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Word: meetings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young, married instructor finds it, hard to make both ends meet for two reasons. First, there is a shortage of good housing facilities at a low enough price. A minimum, decent, family apartment in Cambridge costs at least eighty dollars a month. Then, second, because of the poor Cambridge school system, teachers are forced to pay tuition for their children at private schools. This costs anywhere from one hundred and fifty to five hundred dollars per year, depending on the age of the children. Therefore, some way must be found to reduce rents or educational costs in order to enable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO ROOMS FOR RENT | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...many as four. What does the University expect students with such exam schedules to do? Risk failing two out of their four courses, when they could pass by patronizing the Square tutoring schools? Theoretically, I suppose, students should be able to prepare themselves well enough ahead of time to meet any atrocious examination schedule. But, obviously, theory and practice do not always coincide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...means been taking it easy doing the past raceless week. It has really made progress in smoothing out the boat. With almost perfect catching in the land race, Walt Kernan has improved varsity. Now there is only a question of finishing before the varsity will be able to meet any crew in the East...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Fast Rowing of Cornell Navy Brings Crew Major Opposition | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...field of twelve colleges only M. I. T., Princeton, and Brown were able to better the record of the Crimson sailors. The leading skipper of the meet was an M. I. T., man, Runyan Colie, with Roger Wilcox '41 and James A. Roussmaniere '40 among the pacesetters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sailors Place Fourth In Morse Challenge Event | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Stand Up and a Fight," co-starring Robert Taylor and Wallace Beery, is another fairly successful effort to make a man out of the ladies' delight. From a southern plantation where Taylor, as Blake Cantrell, an idly rich orphan, is presiding over a hunt meet, the scene shifts rapidly to the roisterous frontier rivalry of a stage line, run by Wallace Beery, and the nascent Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Forced to sell his plantation, Taylor becomes involved in the general struggle for a livelihood. He sprouts a beard, learns to use a six-shooter to drive nails with, and succeeds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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