Word: recessions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advocating the raising of two fingers. There was always considerable suspense among the kids at every change of teachers until that detail was settled. We were never told how many fingers to raise, and the schoolmarm never wrote such instructions on the blackboard in our presence. But after a recess period, or coming to school in the morning we found the instructions written neatly on the blackboard and the teacher very preoccupied with something on her desk...
...recess of the English Parliament lasted six weeks. The day on which the houses met again is one of the most remarkable epochs in our history (October, 1641). From that day dates the corporate existence of the two great parties which have ever since alternately governed the country. In one sense, indeed, the distinction which then became obvious had always existed, and always must exist. For it has its origin in diversities of temper, of understanding, and of interest, which are found in all societies, and which will be found till the human mind ceases to be drawn in opposite...
Making its last appearance before the Christmas recess, the Glee Club will give a concert for the Harvard Women's Club in the Hotel Vendome next Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock...
...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
Although only a transitional sport to bridge the gap between the fall House athletic program recently completed and the winter sports after Christmas recess, indoor baseball will draw full teams from all the Houses, Samborski predicts...