Word: paid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They had to collect the money, assemble the food supplies and distribute the food to inaccessible regions where camels, buffalo and coolieback were the only possible means of transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...
...News, he was overtaken by Cambridge constables after breaking into the room of the late Walter Treadwell Huntington, Harvard student found shot to death in a field in Windsor, Conn. Sentenced to three months in the House of Correction by a lower court, they appealed to the Superior Court, paid $20 each for court expenses and were freed...
...care adieu, learned Roseland's ropes. He found that payment of 85? entitled him to three dances (three minutes apiece). After these initial dances, men who had brought their own girls danced with them at 5? per dance. But girl-less men (like Mr. Graustein) danced with hostesses, paid at the rate of 35? for three dances. And men who wished to sit out dances with their hostesses could accompany them to a (chaperoned) room off the ballroom, there sit for one hour for $2.80 (of which the girl collected $2). Many a $2.80 spent Mr. Graustein after...
...Note--The Crimson does, not necessarily endores opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
Here at Harvard a scholarship has become a prize to be obtained usually by a man who does not need it badly. A student who comes here and has his way paid by thrifty parents to the extent that he need not work at all outside of school is able to make the Dean's List and live in the highest of bourgeois comfort. But what of the man who must earn his way without the aid from home? He carries one or sometimes two jobs on the side, rushes from his work to his books, and from his books...