Word: mouldering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan was a hustling little city of 124,000 when Samuel Lord opened a dry goods shop on Catherine Street in 1826. In those days most stores hired "pullers in" who fought for customers on the sidewalks. But the young British iron moulder who had borrowed $1,000 for his trading venture and taken in as partner a cousin named George Washington Taylor, had more genteel ideas about storekeeping...
Harvard, the moulder of our clay...
...preparing in a desultory way for Finals. For them now he has a passing word of advice. It is far better to get away from the vale of tears for a period of three days on end, quite utterly away, with whatever sources of diversion is denied, than to moulder in the cool tombs of Widener or Sever for a few hours each day. For in the latter case the evenings are always spent at Wellesley, if it be Sophomores, with the rationalization that the mind must be cleared. If it be Juniors there are the Pops, or Revere Beach...
...importance of the Soviet drama in portraying revolutionary experiments such as the Five-Year-Plan, and in building up and maintaining in Russians the spirit to carry out and support the drastic national readjustments which are now in progress. The function of the drama as a maker and moulder of morals will also be treated...
Inspired by its sense of responsibility as a moulder of public opinion, the CRIMSON will not go to California and laugh it off. Tireless investigation has uncovered a new but reliable formula which may solve the problem. Climb Lowell House Tower and tap base bell with weather vane (unobtrusively removed from Dunster House at high noon three days before). Number of echoes indicates proper month. Using standard sextant, determine latitude and longitude. Look at watch to find time of day. Multiply sum of these results by the height in rods of new Chapel Tower. By the time this is done...