Word: post
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chain has been in operation for several years, but until this year residents were able to worm out along the squash court sidewalk. This year another post has rendered this impractical for anything except Austins, bicycles, and scooters...
Jack Waldren, who has excelled in practice recently, has nosed out Phil Walker and Roger Wilcox for the hotly contested No. 2 breastroke post. Cutler and Frannie Powers will probably swim the 220 together, for Ulen must garner every point possible before the slaughter begins in the back and breast strokes. Although he can put a better 400 relay on the mark than can Brown, Harvard's saturnine sage does not want the seven-point last event to decide the meet, preferring, if he can, to gain enough tallies by seconds and thirds and by a possible six points...
...trouble with the post-war settlement, according to Buck, was that it gave the Negro too great a measure of political freedom, rather than economic opportunity. "Emancipation was a gift that the Negro could not appreciate," Buck said, "and he had neither the morale of freedom nor the feeling that it should be cherished...
Just when the Post Office was congratulating itself on having thus got some of its air mail subsidy bait back, news came from London that in June Imperial Airways expects to start flying mail over the Atlantic to Canada for 12? a half-ounce. This would be less than half the rate the U. S. had figured on if and when some U. S. airline decides to start flying the Atlantic. Only way to meet such a British rate would be to pay carriers the difference in outright subsidy, such as Imperial now enjoys...
...bimillennium exhibition of hard-bitten Roman portrait sculpture and charming Roman craftsmanship of the Age of Augustus (63 B.C.-14 A.D.). The Walker Galleries showed affectionately executed portraits by Durr Freedley, a quiet semiprofessional in the precise New England line, who died last year at Lexington, Mass. Most spirited post-Picasso lyricism of the season appeared at the Julien Levy Gallery in canvases by softspoken, curly-locked Abraham Rattner, who has lived in Paris since the War. A new C. I. O. sculptors' union exhibited honest work, good & bad, at the New School for Social Research. But best bets...