Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Resident at Perkins Institute, Larry, as he is known to friends at Phillips Brooks House, walks every morning a half mile to the street car which he boards for Harvard Square. This is during term time. In Summer he operates a small turkey farm in Woburn...
...stunt hatched by two radio press-agents last week made a newspaper and broadcasting show of the Chicago public school system, shut from the beginning of the term (TIME, Sept. 13) by an infantile paralysis outbreak. While the city grumblingly paid its 9,000 idle teachers, press and radio mined a circulation bonanza. Five newspapers printed homework outlines and instructions under streamer headlines in editions which the parents of 317,000 elementary-school pupils felt more or less duty bound to buy. Six radio stations broadcast lessons by teachers which provided a new sort of parlor game for many...
...track was soon drawing crowds as large as 9,000, and shortly thereafter a onetime Hearst cameraman named Norman Alley opened a track in Chicago. Although Promoter Alley at first claimed that there was no money in the sport, the following year he proceeded to sign up on long-term contracts most of the leading drivers appearing on a mushrooming series of Midwest tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year. A midget race in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last summer drew...
...First term bill of $110 payable at Harvard Trust Company, Harvard Square...
Through college assistance, on the average over 1000 Harvard students a year ordinarily find term time and summer employment, and in good years earn between $200,000 and $300,000 to help finance their schooling...