Word: orly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The greatest difficulty which the Authority faces is derived from the continual decline in patronage. Since 1946, the number of riders has dropped 50 per cent, and with the opening of every new expressway or the imposing of a higher fare, the number drops even more.
The craft of "Lamontmanship" arises precisely from this inadequacy. At nine in the morning, a practitioner of the craft arises, renews the book he checked out the evening before, hides it somewhere in the stacks or on a desk during the day, and returns briefly in the evening to do...
And he is getting a long-delayed chance to exercise his considerable talents. Last year at Brown he tried repeatedly to interest Sports Illustrated in Bruin quarterback Frank Finney, only to be told, "It's hard to do business with S.I. at Brown--you ought to be at Harvard or...
On the first of October, 1935, a provision in the General Laws of the Commonwealth required all teachers to take an oath of allegiance. The law stated, "No professor, instructor, or teacher who is a citizen of the United States shall be permitted to enter upon his duties within the...
"The law to which I object appears to transfer to state legislatures and to officials appointed by partisan governors a responsibility which has constitutionally resided in non-political quarters," he wrote. The State Commissioner of Education returned Mather's oath, and Mather was faced with the alternative of taking the...