Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman in the street was directing traffic eight lines wide. On the corner loitered a small-town policeman out of work, and a medicine show barker. A man who had worked his way through Northwestern University and was now driving a taxi, waited for a fare. A shipping clerk waited for a bus. Among the thousands thronging by were a housewife, a sporty realtor and his friend, a petty municipal official. In a luggage store across the street a hotel clerk asked a salesman to show him the men's room...
...Sometime or other, TIME seems to touch the present or past interest or hobby of everyone of its readers. The story of taking men out of a pool in an unconscious condition takes me back to the time of 1910 to 1914 where old-style water polo at Northwestern University and the Chicago Athletic Association was still a game for real waterdogs...
...second course, on Tuesday afternoons over WEAF, will be taught by Osbourne McConathy, onetime music professor at Northwestern Universitv...
...last year. The times for the 50 and 100 yard swims of 24 1-5 and 54 1-5 seconds respectively, both held by Captain-elect B.S. Wood '33, are both only 1-5 of a second slower than the pool records set last year by Albert Schwartz of Northwestern. The Crimson relay quartet in hanging up a mark of 1:30 in the Dartmouth meet came only 1 1-4 seconds short of equaling the pool record set last year by Michigan...
Because of its elaborate developments in Northwestern Africa and South America, Aeropostale's troubles have long been pyramiding. A deficit estimated at $2,000,000 is now carried in its books. Everything depended upon renewal of the government subsidy which, for 1931, was to be about $3,000,000. Fortnight ago the debacle occurred: the Chamber of Deputies rejected the subsidy. That was the signal for runs upon the three Paris banks which had well over $7,000,000 invested in Aeropostale. They had recently advanced great sums in the expectation of the new subsidy...