Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University had two alternatives when faced with this problem. Either these young men could be kept permanently at a much lower salary than that of their contemporaries at Harvard, thus creating a special class in the faculty (which would be out of accord with Harvard traditions) ; or else the policy outlined above had to be adopted. No one has had less than a year's notice of the University's intention not to reappoint...
Best point about the band though is the easy style with which it swings, its excellent special arrangements, and best of all, the fine dance tempos that it plays. This is nothing short of rank plugging. As a matter of fact, the proceedings paragraphs should have "advt." written after them. But it's about time that something good at Harvard got a little publicity...
...Harvard football squad will leave for Tigertown at 8:30 o'clock Friday morning on a special train, populated by the Varsity and Jayvee football squads, the soccer team, and a host of newspapermen, managers, and coaches
...were once more on sale at London newsstands. But wartime regulations and wartime inflation had sent prices soaring. A Sunday edition that cost 10? in Manhattan sold in London for as much as 2/6 (about 50? at current exchange rates). Reason: no alien periodical could enter Great Britain without special permission from the War Office, except in single copies through the mail. And the increase in postage that newsstands had to pay was aggravated by the rising price of the dollar...
...subsidiaries distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...