Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produce a thousand quarts of milk weekly requires 15-18 milch cows, $10,000 investment in farm, stock, and tools, two men working 14 hours a day, 365 in the year, day help in rush seasons. Weekly return on such a layout today, $40. Wage scale for union milk wagon drivers in Boston: $38 a week plus commission, three days off a month, two weeks' vacation with...
...sleek 72-ft. auxiliary schooner Indra, bound down the Atlantic coast to the Caribbean. Each of the crew of six boys who manned the Indra had paid $1,500 for the privilege of rigging her sails, holystoning her decks, polishing her brass every morning until June. When they return they will be examined, not as Able Seamen but by the College Entrance Examination Board...
...propaganda piece, however, it is as brutally effective as a meat-ax, contains enough obviously first-hand documentation, along with its exaggerations, to deter hundreds of parents from sending their sons to schools which they may suspect of resembling Stone Ridge Military Academy ("You Give Us The Boy, We Return...
...agreement is a signpost to international cooperation, a light along the gloomy path of world relations. Handled delicately and sensibly it may lead, eventually, to a redistribution of gold and a return to the gold standard. Here, at last, is something to look forward to, not with foreboding, but with hope...
...current petitions desire a return to the former rules. Here it might be added, "whatever they were." This is no solution since the old plan presented many difficulties which the Masters were right in attacking. They lacked uniformity not only in makeup but also in enforcement. Observance ran the gamut from the monastic confinement of Leverett to the country club tolerance of Eliot. While the word "chaperon" stood on the statute books, when the "Aunt from Dubuque" appeared at Harvard parties, it was more through spite than invitation. Still the law stood, and many students felt guilt at the habitual...