Word: strainings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France in 1916, later joined the ist Division, A. E. F., emerged as a captain with a Croix de Guerre, six citations, and a wound from the Argonne. Later he was advertising manager of Mogul Checker Cab Co., published its house organ until the company crumbled under the strain of lowered fares. Five years ago he started Taxi Weekly against a local field of seven monthly trade papers. Only one competitor. Taxi News, survives, and it is a fortnightly. Taxi Weekly "turned the corner" at the age of nine months, but it is now suffering with the depression...
Failures. A period of economic stress and strain is always ominously punctuated by bank failures. Ten banks last week closed their doors. Some were small, their failure consequently significant only to the immediate neighborhood. Of more general import were the following...
...places in it. In the third place, there is procured some of that which is most necessary in this age, the wherewithal to make profitable use of leisure time. Acquaintances with books and the library are renewed, and the result has been a better ordered life than formerly. The strain and pressure of the business world is to some extent counterbalanced. Finally, the benefit to the college itself, to its morale, its purpose, can not be minimized. Too often have those who wail against hilarious alumni and the general problem which they create failed to realize that in most cases...
...Harvard employment is as fair as it pretends to be. After this investigation is finished there can be some assurance that the methods used by the University towards its employees is just and also that Harvard's reputation in the press will not meet with another such strain from the odoriferous Scrub Women affair. At least one sore is healed...
...time he toyed with the idea of marriage. But it was actually repulsive to him. He could never bring himself to the point. He had several intimate friendships with women, and conducted them all peaceably together, on however platonic a plane. This took considerable tact, was often an emotional strain. "Philine" he finally calmed back into friendship...