Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which brings me to the point that women's entrance into competition with men will of necessity be very gradual, because of lack of equipment and lack of experience. That they do not rush in immediately when restrictions are lifted does not mean they are "just contrary...
With the longer office hours and the more complete facilities provided in the department's now quarters, it is expected that cases will be disposed of more rapidly and better service given than in the past. During the rush hours in the late afternoon, between 4.30 and 5.30 o'clock, two doctors will be in attendance. The hours on Saturday are to be from 8.30 to 12 o'clock...
...created the New York State Housing Board, chairmanned by Brooklyn's Darwin Rush James. Under its control private corporations were set up to: i) Build model apartments renting for $11 per room per month ($12.50 in congested Manhattan); 2) borrow 663% of their cost on mortgage bonds; 3) pay 5% or less on their borrowings; 4) restrict dividends to 6%; 5) apply surplus to reduce rentals. Since 1927 eleven housing projects around New York City have been completed under the Board, representing 1,918 apartments costing $10,161.074. Four of them were co-operative undertakings by the Amalgamated Clothing...
...turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...
...into the square, sprinkle corn meal on the ground in a circle with radial lines extending in the six directions of Indian astronomy. They shrink back. The carriers fling their snakes into the circle. The snakes writhe one upon another, sometimes try to slip away. Suddenly several Hopi rush into the circle, fill their arms with snakes and run off, out of the village, over the plateau to fling the snakes far from them. Slowly they return to the village, while the snakes go away to bring them rain. White spectators return to their civilization, a little awed, a little...