Word: sevening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps I did not get the full significance of the whole athletic situation living out here in the 'sticks' as I do, but, from what I can glean from the account of it in the CRIMSON, seven minor sports are going to be dropped in order to save $20,000 a year. There are, of course, other points but I am most interested in this...
Harvard must be in a pretty bad way when it has to drop seven sports in order to save $20,000. Saving such an amount of money in such a fashion is utterly ridiculous. If I could not find another way out of a deficit excepting by curtailing the athletic program, I would pack my bags and make way for someone who could...
Whitey is an albino for the same reason that occasional humans are: congenital lack of black pigment cells in the skin. For some reason albino frogs are far rarer than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions...
...than anywhere else in the land. Ablaze all night, automobile factories were running full-blast. Endless trains of heavy trucks rumbled through the streets carrying shiny new bodies. Shoppers crowded the sidewalks. Department stores reported the best sales since 1930. Cinema theatres and night clubs were packed. At least seven Broadway dramas had played to full houses for a week or more. At the swankest cocktail bars in the town, L'Aiglon and the Book Cadillac, waiters got little sleep. Clerks and salaried workers grumbled as rents and food prices went up. Relief rolls had shrunk...
When New York City called for bids in October 1932, the NRA was not even a political idea and the rubber industry was quoting 34? per ft. as its top price for fire hose. The following July eight new bids were received by the city. Seven quoted 71? a ft., the eighth 75?. All were rejected. Last February, after the Rubber Code had been in effect for more than a year. New York City authorities were amazed to learn that the price had jumped to 82?. Furthermore, they had received 13 bids from 13 different companies all quoting an identical...