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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closet,* Lieutenant Governor Hayes took an interest in the company and presided over sessions at which a bill calling for such equipment in all public places was passed. Mr. Hayes could easily see the merit of the fixture which, when a user rises, snaps its seat back into a recess, scours it with live steam and a scrubbing brush, cools it with a jet of water, snaps it out again for the next patron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Connecticut | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...Harvard Dramatic Society had some very fine days eight or nine years ago; I haven't heard of it at all lately," said Thornton Wilder, during a recess from the rehearsal and revision of his newest play, "A Merchant of Yonkers," which is finishing a tryout run in Boston this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer Playwright, Says Drama Club Had 'Verve' in Past | 12/20/1938 | See Source »

Immediately after the Christmas recess, on the evening of January 4, the Freshman Register will be delivered to its 750 subscribers, Red Book Editor Eugene D. Keith announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Delayed '42 Register To Appear After Xmas | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

Starting their annual trek homewards for Christmas next week will be more students suffering from various wheezes and coughs than has been the case before this recess in the last four years. An unusually, severe December has resulted in over five hundred more visits to the Hygiene Building for respiratory troubles than for the corresponding period last fall, and if past records are any indication of future predictions, this figure is due to increase still more alarmingly after the New Year. This January should be no exception to past seasons, when numerous undergraduates have returned limp and exhausted from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMS IN JANUARY | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

Last week Tuffy escaped; how, no one seems to know. As Thomas Saito, a 37-year-old Japanese auctioneer, was stepping into his car, Tuffy came bounding up the boardwalk, pounced, knocked Saito down, clawed his chest, dragged the inert body 150 feet to a recess under the boardwalk, where he mangled it horribly. Police searched gingerly among the pilings under the walk while members of the volunteer fire department warned people to stay indoors. When police finally sighted Tuffy, they blazed away, slightly wounded him. He disappeared again. Two hours later Patrolman John Gares sighted the lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Terror in Wildwood | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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