Word: silver
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week he quit while he and Pitt football were good, and his resignation was quickly accepted by Chancellor Bowman. On the campus students wore black mourning bands with JOCK printed on them in silver; the student paper, The Pitt News, printed two blistering columns blaming Jock's departure on "blundering...
...William Harvey, who discovered in the early 17th Century the way the blood circulates, was "a little man with twinkling* SURGEONS ALL-Rich & Cowan, London (18s.). eyes. . . . When he was lecturing he had a little wand of whalebone tipped with silver," which he used to point out organs he was dissecting. "A lecture on the liver ... he transformed into a subject of vital interest by ... references to bearbaiting and cockfighting, football and the ballet, and a strange bird in his Majesty's aviary. . . . Then he would conclude with a spirited attack on the fashion of lacing young girls till...
Regarding wage increase demands, the University made small concessions to be based on seniority. Workers receiving $14, who include waitresses, pantry, help's hall and glass and silver women were offered a 50 cent raise as of September 1, 1939, provided they had been employed for one year. Two year's service would bring a dollar...
...nearly two years he has just sat there, no longer absolute boss even of his papers' policies. He still owns fabulous Wyntoon and San Simeon (subject to Mr. Chandler's mortgage), still dines celebrities from silver plate in medieval splendor (on his allowance from Judge Shearn); but at 75 the bad boy of U. S. journalism is just a hired editorial writer who has taken a salary...
...York World-Telegram appeared the following advertisement: "Washington's birthday is more than toy hatchets and silver dollar tossing. . . . We can hang our flags in a proud land, rich and free. We should hang out a large flag on every proper occasion. A large flag to fit a large country. America is an expansive country. Wanamaker's is an expansive store. Our flags are inexpansive...