Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tolling Bell. In the last few weeks help of a more substantial (and, for the Greek army, more ominous) kind has been piling up on Greece's northwestern borders. Over the two main roads leading to villages on the Albanian side of the border, there has been a steady movement of convoys bringing up supplies. Nightly their lights bob and weave among the hills. Nightly mule trains wind across the rough hill tracks into Greece. Villages on the Albanian side of the border, for a depth of 30 miles, have been practically cleared of civilians...
Like Yale, other colleges relied on rich or big-name alumni to put the bite on lesser grads.-In most cases, behind the alumni amateurs were professional fund-raising agencies. Northwestern University alone wanted $167 million; Columbia needed $100 million. Harvard thought it could make do with $90 million. To refurbish the Mark Hopkins log at Williams (at a cost of $2,500,000), President James Phinney Baxter III spent 24 days in one recent month chasing dollars outside Williamstown. (He felt, he said, like an "itinerant mendicant...
Mail-Order Model. She went to Northwestern University for a year and a half, then quit and got a job as a model. She posed for pictures for the Montgomery Ward catalogue. She went to New York, got a job playing Pearl in a road-show version of Tobacco Road...
Teele said last night that chemistry, physics, and other technical concentrators have a slight advantage over their classmates in Humanities and Social Sciences. The Northwestern figures show that engineering graduates average $340 to $275 to start, compared to 1939 range...
Seniors graduating in June will find a seller's market for their talents, according to a recent survey conducted by the Northwestern Life Insurance Company. With figures culled from 34 universities, the statistics show that a college graduate can shed his cap and gown and step into a job at twice the salary that his Class of 1939 schoolmate could expect...