Word: school
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the existence of a special fund to absorb the deficit of Business School Dining-Halls left the University Dining-Halls so deeply in the hole that it took over 20 per cent of the credit balance to feet the bill. At this rate the balance will not last long...
With Edgar Wallace's background, an other writer might have been deflected from money-making by social conscience or social anger. By-blow of a provincial actress, adopted into a Cockney fishmonger family, he quit school at 12, worked as newsboy, printer's devil, hod carrier, milkman's helper, joined the army at 18, got plenty of hard knocks as he rose from jingo Boer War correspondent to London newspaper editor to rich writer. But said Edgar Wallace in later years: "There cannot be much wrong with a society which made possible the rise of . . . Edgar Wallace...
...really," Vag's expression replied silently. Then he began to laugh. "Great school, Milton. Know some girls there myself." Vag could not forget the old Brattle dances from his Freshman year...
About five years ago Jenny Jones and Suzie Smith graduated from high school and came to work in the Harvard Dining Halls at $500 a year. In 1937 the Pension Plan was started by the University and $12 was taken from the annual salaries of the two girls. The University added another $12 and the total annual premium of $24 was deposited in a Retirement Annuity for each girl with the Teachers' Insurance and Annuity Association. Last year they joined the A.F. of L. Dining Hall Employees Union, and, since both Jenny and Suzie face problems in connection with their...
...girl wasn't sure whether to answer. Finally she said: "Milton School...