Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administrative problems must plot their time judiciously and can allow only small amounts of it to the students, but faculty members whose primary duties are teaching have no excuse for hiding. If the personal popularity of our young instructors is so overwhelming that they have no privacy, they might resort to eating onions to reduce the number of their callers...
...week when the General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents of the Bank of France, potent oligarchs of orthodox...
Kirkland's pucksters had to resort to rough hockey to edge out Eliot, 2-1. To a game marked by many tussles, Frank J. Johnson, II '37 added color by wearing a baseball glove...
When War broke, he asked for and got an appointment as consultant at a shipyard in Camden, N. J. For months he was given nothing to do. The other engineers were trying vainly to balance the turbine rotors for torpedo boat destroyers. Called in as a last resort. Teetor drew on his supersensitive ''feel" for vibration, found a way to balance the rotors in three hours each...
...artist went to England for two summers, began the paintings of fishermen, ships and waves by which he is now best remembered. On his return he joined his family at Prout's Neck, Me., a village which his father was trying to develop as a summer resort. Always chary of company, Winslow Homer now became practically a hermit...