Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dinner will be served in the dining hall from 6.45 to 7.30 o'clock, and extra charges, which are to be put on the term bills, will amount to $.25 for each House member, and $1.00 a plate for guests. Tables may be reserved by signing the list in the House library by Wednesday, October...
...thousands of churches throughout the land this Sunday, devout Catholics will drop 1? in a plate in the vestibule, help themselves to copies of a magazine named Catholic Missions. On its rotogravure cover they behold a sea-&-sunset scene captioned: "Enchanted Isles. In the islands of the South Seas 1,566 missioner priests, brothers and nuns are laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese...
...Bronx one day last week 75 concealed Federal agents, city detectives and State troopers watched a man come out of a small stucco house, cross a lane to a frame garage. He backed his black sedan into the sunlight and 75 hearts skipped a beat when the license plate shone with the numerals 4U-13-41. Plainclothesmen followed the car a few blocks, forced it to the curb...
Continental Can was yet to be born when William B. ("Tin Plate") Leeds and his gaudy crew of promoters gathered up 90% of the U. S. can business in 1900 and called it American Can-what really was then but is not now the Tin Can Trust. American Can promptly made the mistake of raising prices all around, which not only irritated Roosevelt I and the best can customers but also attracted scores of competitors into the field. One thus attracted was Edwin Norton, who had sold out to the Trust and urged others to do likewise. Mr. Norton...
...Zeppelin radiator, of the amazing economy of gasoline, and while the credulous Freshman and the harried upper classman may take him at his word, the sharp-eyed graduate student who is versed in the traditions of Cambridge notes the square area on the doors, whence a plate has been removed, and at once remembers the true story of the car's past life, and discounts Silas' mad ravings for cobwebs and moontalk...