Word: recessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, issued a statement to the effect that the Widener scrubwomen had at all times been paid the full amount demanded by the Mimimum Wage Commission of Massachusetts, and that the various respites taken by the women from their work during the recess allowed by the University compensated for the fact that they received two cents an hour less in their pay envelope. The next month, Lamont, representing a group of 50 Harvard graduates announced that they would raise $5,000 to give to the scrubwomen. This plan failed, and the case was considered concluded...
Following the Christmas recess the Topiarian Club of the Architectural School begins its sixteenth annual competition, open only to second and third year men and lasting three days. Three judges chosen from among outside practitioners will award the prizes: the first a silver cup; the second a book. Second year men are already working on a housing problem at Waverley Oaks while third year men are constructing an assumed graduate school of fine arts. The plans for the outdoor areas will be exhibited...
Even the little boys at his Brooklyn public school teased gangling Arnold Baker. They made fun of him because he was 14 and still in the fifth grade, they shoved him about at recess time, shrilled derisive nicknames at him, called him "Big Boy," "Daddy Longlegs," "High-Pockets." Timid, lonely High-Pockets had a bad time of it. One day last week High-Pockets refused to go to school, again begged his mother to let him quit and go to work. When she went out, High-Pockets locked every door and window in the house, crawled up to and stuck...
...Philippines, a Treasure and a Problem) which incensed politicos. Mr. Roosevelt was denounced as an enemy of the island people. After his appointment his book was burned in protest. Because the Senate had failed to confirm his nomination, he did not travel to Manila to take up a recess appointment. A more stubborn man might have tried to brazen out this local criticism but not Nominee Roosevelt who explained in his letter of resignation...
Immediately after the Christmas recess not more than 30 students in the course will be picked to form a special AA section. Members of this group, according to Professor Burbank will be selected with reference to demonstration of exceptional ability in the subject of Economics during the next three months. This system is being employed so that men who are extremely apt at grasping the true significance of the course will not be obliged to tarry behind with men who are not so inclined...