Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several vessels which passed by. But he ordered them back to the failing pumps, confident the old freighter, bought from the U. S. Maritime Commission, would ride out the storm. . As their plight grew worse. Third Engineer Bortas Balaskas slipped into the radio room at 4:15 a. m., stood over the operator with drawn knife, commanded him to break the captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed the ship, the Tzenny Chandris' cargo shifted. She listed crazily, water rose in the hold, the pumps ceased...
...orchestra, many are on scholarships, pay as little as $1 a year tuition, and especially needy students receive money for rent and clothing. Conductor of the association is tall, slim Violist Leon Barzin (TIME, July 31, 1933), 37, who gathers the students thrice weekly in Carnegie Hall Chamber Music room for rehearsals, works them to a frazzle for two hours and a half, shouts at them when they play badly. He has been conductor since 1930. Though Conductor Barzin does not promise to place every student he accepts, since last April the association has farmed out to symphony orchestras about...
...Board of Governors of the U. S. Polo Association, the men who rule U. S. polo, last week gathered in a smoke-filled room in Manhattan for a solemn annual task. Gravely they passed about typewritten sheets of paper, studied them, made penciled notations. Then the names of ranking U. S. polo players were called off, their past and present handicaps noted, their recommended handicaps voted upon...
...Leaving London to escape the plague, he had been recalled by the authorities two weeks before. At ten in the morning of May 30. with two government agents and a London thief, the prominent young playwright visited Dame Eleanor Bull's tavern, took a private room, ate dinner, walked in a private garden with his strange companions...
...until the last towel of the last squad member out of the showers is picked up is their competition at an official close. All through the customary locker-room scene of jubilation or dejection they will be seen scurrying about their duties, still competing. All around them will be an atmosphere of broken discipline, as their zero hour approaches. Finally, Manager Bob Whitman '38, will call them into the Jayvee Coaches room...