Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the advent of this new time the Dining Halls were subject to a "rush" just before the end of the hours for serving--at each meal. A certain class of fellows consistently come in the Halls at the last possible moment. Were the evening meal served from 6.00 to 10.30 there would be a large number come in at 10.29. On every holiday, Sunday, or any day on which the time is extended for serving, there is always this joyful rush at the last minute...
...named because of its purchase of a dominant interest in the Boston Herald and Traveler, because it manufactures more newsprint than any other company in the world, and because it is a subsidiary of International Paper and Power Co., vigorous participant in New England's "White Gold Rush" (TIME, April 22). ¶ Editor-in-chief George B. Parker (Scripps-Howard chainpapers) denounced the alleged policy of the power interests in omitting their names from publicity sent out to the press. Let the power men present their side in rate controversies, he went on, under the names of their officials...
White Gold Rush. Folded into mountains and valleys, cut by many a swift river, densely populated, primarily a manufacturing area needing railroads to carry workers and their products, their necessities, New England is a hydro-electric El Dorado. Its latent wealth of White Gold was discovered comparatively late owing to a} pre-emption of the handier power sites by textile and other factories; b} New England conservatism - small men content to make and sell power in a small...
...whole move is reported to be indirectly the work of young business men who complained about the late hours of metropolitan night life. Dancing on a crowded floor through the wee small hours of the morning may prepare one for the intricacy of the subway rush, but the vim, vigor, and vitality necessary to close on a million dollar contract with a Chicago potentate comes by a slightly different route. As for the girls, they are on record as merely saying...
...into contact with the first silkworm cocoon at South Manchester. Since then the town has known many Cheneys, many cocoons. Genealogically-minded Cheneys may have pondered, as they drove about, on the ramifications of relationship between the various families descended from the original seven Cheney brothers: Ralph, Ward, Frank, Rush, Charles, John, Seth...