Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...
Mount Holyoke, at small South Hadley, Mass. (pop. 6,773), last week began its 34th year under the presidency of Mary Emma Woolley, 71, famed feminist and warrior for peace who crowned her labors in 1932 as the only U. S. woman delegate to the unsuccessful Geneva Disarmament Conference. Standing erect and impressive in academic gown before 226 freshmen and 704 upperclassmen, large, florid President Woolley announced: "Cynicism and pessimism are oldfashioned, as oldfashioned, I suspect, as human nature itself...
First Northern shooting came at small Saylesville, R. I. (pop. 1,416) when deputy sheriffs pumped buckshot into a crowd besieging the local textile plant. On the second day Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis Green clamped martial law on the Saylesville district, mobilized his State's entire National Guard...
...midweek the twister of trouble moved a few miles north to Woonsocket, R. I. (pop. 50,000). Behind a barrage of bricks which left the main street in darkness, some 500 picketers charged the Woonsocket Rayon Co.'s mill just before midnight. Militia advanced on the shadowy mob with fixed bayonets, fired two volleys. Four figures went down in the dark, one to rise no more...
Last May the 117 public teachers of Old Forge, Pa. (pop. 16,000), hard-coal town four miles south of Scranton, had gone seven and one-half months without pay. Decrying the school board's failure to seek State aid, 97 Old Forge teachers organized, struck. The school board then got some cash from the State on a promise of economy. Its economy consisted of firing 29 striking teachers, hiring 24 new ones to take their places...