Word: student
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prank-loving Student...
...long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese old man" to redeem the balloon...
...good men. To train its flying men, U. S. Army Air Corps has invested $16,833,733.50 in Randolph Field at San Antonio, Tex. On Randolph's 1,900-acre main field and six auxiliary fields, overworked instructors are currently schooling the unprecedented total of 440 cadets, 93 student officers, nine National Guard officers. If academic mortality holds up, about half of these will fail, 7% of the graduates eventually will receive Regular Army commissions. Remainder will put in some time at Army pay, go into reserve, await the next...
...comfortable plurality Russell Billiu Long, 19, older son of the late Louisiana Kingfish, won the presidency of Louisiana State University's Student Council. Able Russell Long, a Junior majoring in government, cut his political teeth last year when he got his sister, Rose Lolita, elected president of the Women's Student Association. This spring, aided by Shirley Leche, svelte niece of Louisiana's governor, he toured the campus on a sound truck, held forth over loud speakers, plastered university grounds & buildings with screaming handbills. Black-haired, curly-headed, handsome Politician Long acts so much like his father...
...compete with full-fledged & experienced European rivals, many U. S. conductors have not only studied in Europe but have launched their careers there. European opera houses will occasionally take on a U. S. student for odd jobs. Second-rate European orchestras can usually be hired for concerts. But hiring a loo-man orchestra to practice on is a luxury that only a very liberally financed maestro can afford...