Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the John Reed Society and the Committee to Save Harvard Education were simultaneously turned down by the Corporation on Monday, they were stymied by what is in effect the University's highest court of appeal...
...collect no more than 60% of the nine roads' taxes for 1934-35-36, the court ordered a sweeping revision of New Jersey's assessment methods. Until all of the roads' properties were revalued, said the court, the 60% payment rule would hold. Too late to save bankrupt Jersey Central, the order was not too late to apply to the nine roads' 1939 tax bill ($18,261,000), due next month. It may save New Jersey from killing more of the roads which pay its golden taxes...
...main defect of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the decapitation just a bit of a royal whimsey. Partly this is due to Author Anderson's original conception, partly to the neurotic bounce with which Cinemactress Davis scratches, claws, snarls and romps her way through the repetitious love scenes, mopes and moons through her my-manic depressions...
...with the dollar?" For answer, in her next day's mail she got more money. A contributor calling himself "Sunset Hunter" suggested penny banks to catch odd coins for the tower. Readers began to drop their pennies, nickels, dimes into old pitchers and broken cups to save them for Nancy...
...rally, Richard M. Russell '14 termed his opponent in the mayoralty campaign, Mayer John W. Lyons, a "waster, libeler, and slanderer," and called upon the voters to save Cambridge from "bankruptcy and ruin." Lyons recently lost a $12,000 libel suit to John D. Lynch whom he had libelously attacked...