Word: suit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still felt all right, so he started off across a swamp in his bare feet. At Harrison, a mile from the hospital, a night watchman gave him a pair of rubbers and a suit of overalls. Joe trudged stolidly on to Newark, found his friend. He still felt all right, so he decided to stay around for a while and enjoy himself. Meanwhile, police were searching the swamp for Joe's body...
...delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus, lit matches to a pile of boxes. One girl kicked off her shoes, stripped the silk stockings off her legs and, standing bare-foot in the snow, hurled the stockings into the fire. Other silk-clad girls followed suit, snatched the silk ties from male delegates. When all the silk in sight had disappeared, they raced into the dormitories, returned with other armloads of students' underthings. Around the fire danced the delegates chanting: Make lisle the style, wear lisle for a while. If you wear cotton, Japan gets...
...laggard to take to the courts against Section 11 of the Public Utility Act of 1935-the section described in the press as "the death sentence"-was American Water Works & Electric Co. Inc. Last February American Water Works withdrew its suit and registered with SEC. Five months ago American Water Works became one of the first of some 90 holding companies which are now registered with SEC to file a voluntary plan for reorganization. And last week SEC, pleased to find a public utility that wanted to cooperate, gave its approval in all major respects...
...three tables nearest the exam windows were reserved for those who want to read the booklets, it might be possible to locate an exam. The rest is up to the college, up to them to respect the pages of a book rather than tear them up to suit their wishes. With these complications removed, the exam collection would more nearly fulfill the purpose for which it was put there; to show distracted students how much they do not know...
Eating in a local, second-rate restaurant at approximately 1:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the reporter noticed a young man eating a plain lunch with milk to drink. Because of his "extra-ordinary good looks," the man in a brown suit, carefully dressed, attracted Ball...