Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should like to point out a few facts in connection with the movement recently rejuvenated by the Junior class, toward installing electric lights in Hollis, Holworthy, North Matthews, Stoughton, and Thayer. It is a thing which many former classes have tried to accomplish, and one that will inevitably come. Great stress has been laid lately on the idea of making the Senior dormitories more attractive; here is certainly an opportunity to do so. It would be a gift which would last as long as the buildings themselves, as a memorial to the present generation in college...
...read Pundit Lippmann's column in full. He too made the statement, which he signally failed to support with any evidence, that this country's people have changed in their attitude toward war during recent months. Now you say the same thing; or at least I so interpret your rather awkward sentence; though you do not say whose attitude has been changed, or how many attitudes...
...cross between Penrod and Willie Baxter, who attends classes mainly in the principal's office. With a talent for head-on collisions, always ingenious, never crafty, always there with an answer, never with the right one, brash, bouncing, rumpled, rattled, rueful by turns, Henry grows into that rare thing on the stage-a person...
...level; last year it was raised another 7½%. Last week, facing a crisis considerably worse than 1932, the railroads again asked the 21 unions to accept a pay cut. Snapped Chairman George Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association: "I never heard of such a silly thing in my life as the attempt to reduce purchasing power at the same time the President is pouring out $4,500,000,000 in an attempt to increase buying power. They are not going to get one cent from us. ... We won't give them the whiskers from yesterday...
What the growers wanted James Morrison to do was stop the chains from using strawberries as loss-leaders to get customers into their stores. First thing he did was to forbid buyers to use the Hammond Auction for anyone but their own chain...