Word: start
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's legislature shelved a bill requiring radio stations to play Dixie at the start and finish of each day's broadcast...
Sheets is up at 7 every morning, to start a round of activity which permits no time for dreaming. In one day he may drive into Claremont for a meeting of the City Planning Commission, confer with his partner (he is also an architect) about the design of a new church or country club, teach a class at Scripps College (where he heads the nine-man art department), and paint a picture. Evenings-unless by chance he has been asked to make a speech on foreign affairs-he devotes to his wife and four children and to the guests they...
...Deacon also believes that a competent oceanographer might make a good living by setting up a wave recorder on the coast of Chile and watching for storms approaching from the lonely South Pacific. When he noted the telltale swells, he could warn shipping companies (for a price) not to start loading cargo at poorly protected harbors...
With the top-level labor leadership of Walter P. Reuther a six-months established fact, it is hardly surprising that Walter P. Reuther the effective political figure should start coming of age. Wednesday afternoon at Baker Library the President of the United Auto Workers completely conveyed the integrity of his stance to an audience that might have been hostile: members of Advanced Management and Labor Policy Seminars together with curious Business School onlookers. They peppered Reuther with questions on specific petty gimmicks of UAW policy. The Red Head simply cocked jauntily backward and the Redhead triumphantly established a controlling rapport...
Aside form the diversity in the House's clientele, Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12, associate professor of Biochemistry, has a few other things to offer newcomers. Winthrop is traditionally the athletes' House, and before the war its men consistently ran away with the Straus Trophy. After a poor postwar start, the House is rapidly approaching its former athletic eminence...