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Word: overseer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgia owes its schoolteachers $5,000,000, sees no way of paying them before June 30-and after that date they cannot collect because of a State law prohibiting debt carry-overs to the next fiscal year. Unofficial calculations were that 200 Georgia schools, with 20,000 pupils, were closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: S. O. S. | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Whether it is actually "record-breaking crowds" that bring about these periodical hold-over weeks, or whether there is something mysterious going on behind the scenes, is a question that has always intrigued us. Strange it is that the hold-over bug seems so frequently to strike several theatres at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

An epidemic of hold-overs seems to have struck the Boston theatres, with the result that cinemaddicts of the vicinity of Harvard Square must fall back on their old standby, the U. T. For the rest of the week there is a program being offered which, if not of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

The program of production control cannot be blamed for this year's low prices, except insofar as it was not drastic enough in the face of huge carry-overs from the bumper crops of 1937. The necessity of some sort of reduction was recognized even by Hoover's Farm Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WANT IN PLENTY | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Everything is spick and span. All the dishes are thoroughly cleansed. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Decomposition of Protein Chief Cause Of Gastro-Intestinal Disturbances | 12/3/1937 | See Source »

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