Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Counterfeit dimes and quarters are being circulated around the Square in large quantities, it was learned yesterday. Local merchants report that they have been deceived by the authentic look of the coins which are made of pewter...
Referring to the recent report that a large group of students were planning to stage a Model World War in the Yard, Charles R. Apted '06, Yard police chieftain, announced "I don't give a hoot about a Model World War, but if it starts and gets out of bounds, we'll take care...
Last week the usually careful New York Times printed a report from Camden, N. J., just across the Delaware from Philadelphia, that Curtis had made an offer to buy Camden's $10,000,000 City Hall. Fortnight earlier had come rumors from Philadelphia of a poll of 16,800 Curtis stockholders. From $6,000 in 1934, Pennsylvania had upped its taxes on Curtis Publishing Co. to $716,000 in 1936, rumored a levy of $1,800,000 in 1937. Delaware and New Jersey were mentioned as new home States for Curtis. There taxes would be around...
...formal report of what happened next was drawn up and informal stories varied. According to one version, when the driver reached the nearest point on his route to the scientists' destination and asked them to get out, they refused. One said: "We will have a sitdown strike." When the driver threatened to remove them and their baggage from his vehicle by force, a strike committee pointed out that the energy output involved in any such procedure would be greater than that required to take them to the university. The driver yielded to this logic, drove his passengers to Swain...
Summarizing the purpose of the new plan, which made its embryonic appearance in the President's February report, yesterday's announcement concludes with the points, "to show that an individual may continue his education throughout life by disciplined reading on an informal basis", "to promote interest in the history of American civilization", and "an attempt to counteract the idea that the only road to knowledge lies through formal instruction in regular college courses...