Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...medieval dance mania last week as they watched the U. S. Sit-Down epidemic of 1937 spread out across the land. From Salem witchcraft persecution to Ku Klux Klan, from Gold Rush of 1849 to Bull Market of 1929, the U. S. has shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven...
...world interest focused last week on a tiny old man with a knob of a head, thin greying hair and gold-rimmed spectacles. This was the mysterious "intervener" in the divorce case of Mrs. Simpson. It was he who alone seized and exercised a right possessed by every British subject after a decree nisi of divorce has been granted in the Kingdom, namely the right at any time in the following six months to tip off the King's Proctor that there is something fishy about the case and demand that the Attorney General reopen it with a view...
...with photography, had invented a secret process for taking pictures on sensitized copper plates. Loss of the Diorama was the loss of Daguerre's income. He accepted an annuity of 4,000 francs ($800) from the French Government for the secret of his invention, which was shortly the subject of a booklet soon translated into six languages, published in 26 editions...
...number of passengers (44) because ships have got bigger. This holocaust has lately shrunk public confidence in flying to new lows, caused a terrific din of discussions about air safety. This week the April issue of FORTUNE summarizes air safety in the most thorough and lucid article on the subject to date. And last week a committee of the U. S. Senate, sharing the same views, took steps toward doing something about them...
...Welch Peel '39, Hubert H. Nexon '37, and Vincent J. Rossi '37 will take the negative view of the subject: "Resolved, That this country should adopt a policy of economic internationalism", while C. E. Irvin, Elbert Cisson, and Herbert Weinberg will speak on the affirmative for Oberlin...