Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience. Curly-headed Ronald Liss had to leave the stage several times. But even the smallest players had learned enough about music to read notes with a fair degree of accuracy, to beat good time when their turns came to climb up on a grown-up chair, bow vigorously, tap for attention and direct the others. Karl Moldrem, the man who , founded and patiently trained the New York Baby Orchestra, appeared on the stage to help the children tune their violins, to remind each of the young conductors that they were to wave their arms in three-four or four...
...thirteen licensed stores in the immediate vicinity of Harvard Square sell on the average of 9400 glasses of beer every day or about 587 gallons, a CRIMSON reporter leaned Saturday from statistics furnished by the local venders. For places that have brew both in bottles and on tap, patrons buy approximately 20 gallons of bottled beer, or 160 bottles a day to 32 gallons or 512 scidels of beer on draught. There is one place in the Square that carries 14 brands, and averages $137 receipts on the beverage every 14 hours, Most licenses are $100 plus an additional...
...sidelines and from surrounding dormitory windows. Out among the juniors would pass 60 grave-faced seniors, one at a time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club) chose members. A distinctly grim overtone accompanied the proceedings-the chagrin and bitterness of men who hoped they would be wanted and were...
...Yale's campus was empty of juniors. Obeying a brief announcement in the Daily News, they were waiting in their rooms. The 60 seniors went directly, unobtrusively for the men they wanted. Initiations in the societies' "tombs" were held that night as usual. If the change in Tap Day caused any grumbles or heartaches they were not public. The News said nothing. The Alumni Weekly was pleased, having long called Tap Day "barbarous...
...bugaboo has been the unbelievably prolific East Texas oil field. It was discovered in 1930, a huge underground lake of oil, 32 miles long and three miles wide. Wildcatters and great oil companies had soon planted 10.000 derricks over it, drilled 10,000 shafts 3,600 ft. deep to tap the subterranean flood. As the oil spouted through 10,000 pinholes in the earth's crust it greased the skids of oil prices. Tighter & tighter the industry drew its proration rules but prices fell to 10?. Then the Governors of Oklahoma and Texas shut down the wells with State...