Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after several years of agitation against a system of voting for officers when no Freshman could know more than one out of five of his 1000 classmates. Elections were voted down in a referendum by a 432 to 179 margin and the Union Committee stayed in office for the rest of the year...
Representing the student body in the College government is its business, and a majority of its seventeen members (six from the Junior and eleven from the Senior class) are elected by their classmates. The rest are appointed by the elected men to ensure that all groups are represented...
...Alabama's 42,100; 400 of smallest Nevada's 1,600. About half will be replaced with other applicants. If the record of previously discharged WPAsters holds good, only 15% of the 650,000 will find private jobs; those who do will average $2.98 per week. The rest must crowd onto overloaded local home relief rolls...
...plate was substituted for the paver. But when the prop man swung his little hammer, breaking the plate, he also dug quite a gash in the hobbyist's pate. Once a beekeeper lost control of some of his pets, who held Studio 36 against all comers for the rest of the night. A guest rooster flew off during a rooftop show, turned up later in the Tenderloin. Only this month, while Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was guest master of ceremonies in the absence of the Lobby?, Founder Dave Elman, a visiting porcupine wrapped himself around a microphone, cut the show...
...served under Weitzel and Banks in Louisiana, under Sheridan in Virginia, was a major when the war ended. He was in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at Greenville, S. C., when Miss Ravenel's Conversion was published. His service ended in 1868 and he spent the rest of his life in New Haven turning out bitter novels satirizing the Gilded...