Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excluding the earnings under the temporary student employment plan, the total amount of aid amounted to about one sixth of the amount received in tuition. Although the demand on the various aid funds in general continued to be heavy, the number of students who had to withdraw for financial reasons was no greater than in normal years...
...penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little...
...Sixth child of a family of twelve, Thorstein Veblen was born on a Wisconsin farm to parents who had migrated from Norway. Brought up in a clannish Norwegian community, Veblen spoke no English until he went to Carleton College at Northfield, Minn. There he quickly picked up proficiency in English, became so nice in his choice of words that he finally decided there were no synonyms in the language. After graduating high from Carleton, Veblen taught for a year in a Norwegian-community school, then went East to study philosophy at Johns Hopkins and Yale, take...
...president of the sixth largest tobacco company in the U. S., Wood F. Axton is pre-eminently a buyer of raw tobacco, not a seller. As such, he might be expected to favor low leaf prices. But this far-seeing Kentuckian, who once was a grocery salesman, seized the opportunity to publicize his interest in a square deal for Kentucky tobacco farmers regardless of the consequences to him or his company. From behind a rough-hewn speaker's table in the warehouse he declared: "The leaders of the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians....I would urge...
Scheu took forty-first for the Crimson, with Channing a few yards behind in forty-sixth place, trailed by Pier, fifth member of Harvard's scoring quintet...