Word: tarring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself is a Delta Sigma Phi and Lambda Phi Epsilon and one saxophone player who finished school easily and received a degree. Of the original four Hal Kempians, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams are Tar Heel Delta Tau Deltas. Clayton Cash is an Illinois Delt; Ralph Hallenbeck, Princeton '35, is a Triangle Club man. Dorsey Forrest is a Northwestern Zeta Psi, Bruce Milligan is from Boston U, Phil Fent is a Cornhusker (Nebraska). Needless to say, all, including Hal, usually go bare-headed and garterless...
...South might possibly handle our own personal problems with, what shall we say, a heavy hand. And you of the East? Black Legion? Of the West? California Kidnap Lynchings? Tar and Feather parties? Of the North and Midwest? Milk Spillings and Strike Riots? Sho you-all don't mention those...
...young teacher in San Francisco's dismal Tar Flat section named Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) made the kindergarten popular in one of her first tales, The Story of Patsy. When the Atlantic Monthly damned the kindergarten as "a joy saloon," spunky Miss Wiggin flashed: "I like the name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster...
...disease. But they do not develop cancer unless some susceptible part of the body is unduly irritated by: 1) carcinogenic chemicals, 2) physical agents (X-rays, strong sun light, repeated abrasions as from a jagged tooth), 3) possibly, biological products produced by parasites. Carcinogenic chemicals occur in coal tar, bile acids, female sex hormone. However, no one under stands the exact way in which any of these causes cancer in those individuals who are susceptible to cancer...
...buzzer, hefty President Baumhogger prepared to make the fur fly for Certainteed. Shuffled out of the management along with his predecessor, Chester E. Rahr, were five executives including 70-year-old Chairman George Marion Brown, who had been the mainspring of Certainteed ever since its beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired...