Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tapping a telegraph key for Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Six years later, a graduate of the University of Illinois, he joined the engineering staff of General Electric, where he worked for a time with the late, great Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. No recluse, he served a term as Mayor of Scotia, N. Y., near G. E.'s Schenectady plant...
...getting to the time of term when those people who have been buried under piles of work in the University Library and such haunts of learning for the past few weeks begin to tire and take to giving parties instead. One is now daily besieged with invitations to luncheons, teas, sherry, dinner, and more peculiar functions. Work is temporarily put in the background, to be reinstated as an immediate reality when we find at the beginning of next term that these all-important yearly exams are only a month ahead. But for the present gaiety is king...
...week the newly opened Arts Theatre is giving us an Ibsen cycle. Meanwhile all one's friends seem to be doing something in the grand Amateur Dramatic Club production of "Julius Caesar," which is taking shape in its rehearsals very promisingly for its performances in the last week of term...
...mysteriously refuse cigarettes, invitations, drinks. Astonished at such reformations, one finds they are only temporary. That part of the University which scorns to prepare to act is preparing to now. At the end of this week the Lent Races, precursors of the Mays which crown the rowing year next term, take place, and the chances of the colleges are everywhere eagerly discussed. And of course the Varsity boat is entering its final stages of training for the annual race against Oxford in about a month's time. The golfers, too, are preparing for their university struggle. In fact...
Although the witness finally became inextricably confused in his own testimony and was not asked to give evidence under oath, the Munich Court ended by sentencing naturalized U. S. Citizen Karl Nisselbeck to a jail term of two years for being "an accessory to attempted high treason" to Germany committed by "plotting" with two Germans. One of these two the court acquitted; the other was sentenced to nine months...