Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the War has the British Press had a story quite so theatrical. It started month and a half ago with a sudden rush to buy sixpenny tickets for the Tower of London. Londoners in swarms learned that there was a real prisoner incarcerated in the Tower, held under the Official...
...above move is taken, a larger number of Freshmen than usual will be disappointed in regard to first choices, since it is an unfortunate fact that most of the first-year men are making a herd rush for the larger and newer Houses. It is to be hoped that all those men who fail to obtain the desired House will cooperate as much as possible in the present difficult situation by not complaining. The authorities will in fact, be wise if they do the greater part of the adjusting with those groups of friends entering together, since...
...final session of New York University's conference on junior high schools has adopted a resolution against "hurried and hysterical cutting of school budgets." It is argued that the national rush for economy may cripple seriously the essential functions of our educational machinery, and react to the disadvantage of future generations. Although the report gives half-hearted consent to "true economy," legislative bodies will be unable to escape the conclusion that the schools have joined the swelling ranks of state departments which, while ardent for budget balancing, insist that the axe must fall elsewhere...
...night. Anything might happen. The fact that Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany is by birth an Austrian increased the danger that Austrian Nazis might be able to seize the Government, helped (according to further rumors) by 60,000 German Nazis supposed to be ready & waiting to rush into Austria...
When news of the Alaska gold rush reached New Siberia, Welzl caught the fever, mushed across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked...