Word: subbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...argument boils down to the most universal dispute among boys at bearding school--that of the superiority of their home city. Of course there is no criterion for a city. It might be said, however, that Boston is proud of its still observed customs of curtseying patronesses, strictly chaperoned sub-debs, of its absurd blue laws (or else why does it not change them?), and the like. Fortunately, Chicago is young. It is systematically planned. Unbound by braking customs, it is not afraid to progress. Indeed, it has advanced in great strides. Walter J. Watson...
...Chinese journalists, knowing that their countrymen thirsted to read of Chinese feats of heroism, produced some exciting stories, mostly at Shanghai. Best was the Shanghai story of how "General Teng Ti-mei and 360 soldiers wearing only summer uniforms of thin cotton had made an heroic last stand in sub-zero weather" on Mount Takushan, 125 mi. southeast of Mukden, since the middle of December...
...Last week hearings began before a Senate Banking & Currency sub-Committee on a bill by Georgia's George to permit R. F. C. loans for school maintenance. Twenty-three cities wanted such advances, including Minneapolis. Houston, Detroit, Phoenix, Chattanooga...
...such lines as these for nearly a year. In Variety's national survey of program popularity they have climbed into fifth place. In the minds of more casual radio listeners Burns & Allen have shot into first place as the most annoying broadcast on the air-the climax of sub-moronic radiodrivel...
...refer to that paragraph in your issue of Dec. 12, under the sub-caption "Debts, Disarmament and Davis," of National Affairs, wherein you state...