Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hutchinson '33, Herbert Kornbliet '35, V. H. Kramer '35, H. M. Lawn '34, A. K. L. Myers '34, S. M. Peyser '34, A. E. Phillips, Jr. '34, Leo Srole '33, D. M. Sullivan '33, C. W. Yungblut '34, and J. R. Yungblut '35. The judges who will narrow the field down to ten men, will be: R. W. Coues '95, instructor in English, R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, and G. H. Maynadier '89, assistant professor of English...
...environment conducive to study, are relegated to a building which is poorly ventilated, an eyesore externally and internally, and has the plumbing and lighting fixtures of a bygone age. Even with this, the room rents are exorbitant. Finally, its frame construction, its single fire-extinguisher, and its narrow stairways, make it a dangerous fire-trap. If the University has any regard for safety and congeniality in its housing accommodations, then the abandonment of Shepherd Hall is a foregone conclusion...
...Representative Douglas shot up to a commanding Democratic position in the House in six short years. On the Appropriations Committee he made a detailed study of Governmental machinery. He pitched House Democrats to victory in their annual ball game with Republicans. He bicycles daily to the Capitol wearing a narrow-brimmed hat cocked over his left...
...gold watch he pulled out of his vest pocket and laid on his paper-cluttered desk when Texas' Senator Morris Sheppard rose in the Senate chamber one day last week. A small, prim man with greying hair and narrow eyes, his greatest claim to fame is being co-author of the 18th Amendment. The happiest, proudest day of his 57 years (30 of them in Congress) "came Aug. 1, 1917 when the Senate wrote national Prohibition into the Constitution. Every Jan. 16 since, all Senate business has had to halt while the "Father of the 18th Amendment" delivered...
Basic also are three recommendations which the Report asks the assembly to adopt: 1) "the Assembly recommends the evacuation of [Japanese] troops" who should withdraw into the only part of Manchuria in which they have treaty rights to be, namely, the narrow South Manchuria Railway Zone running down to Dairen & Port Arthur in Japan's Kwantung Leased Territory; 2) "the Assembly recommends the establishment in Manchuria ... of an organization under the sovereignty ... of China" but with "a wide measure of autonomy ... in harmony with local conditions." This organization should police Manchuria with "an efficient gendarmerie," yet to be created...