Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps the least contested position is stroke. Captain Spike Chace is practically a sure thing here if he continues as well as he has been going so far. Possible contenders are Bill Rowe who stroked his Freshman crew two years ago, Henry Curwen who stroked last year's Freshmen but is now tied up in his studies, and Barr Comstock who drew so much attention as stroke of the lively second Freshmen last Spring...
...last week the description of N. M. U. as "a struggling new union" was itself practically a thing of the past. Spawned during the sweaty struggles within the old-line A. F. of L. maritime unions, it is today one of the most successful "rank & file" movements in American labor history. Since fall, it has won 43 of the 50 maritime labor elections held by the National Labor Relations Board. Of some 20,000 votes cast, exactly 16,325 were cast for it in preference to A. F. of L.'s drowning International Seamen's Union and International...
Next to ice in his whiskey & soda, the thing an Englishman dislikes most is a draft from an open window. So last week when barristers and jurors complained of drafts to Mr. Justice Humphreys at the Winchester assizes, the bewigged justice gave heed, dismissed court. In 20 hours, at a cost of ?100, a crew of 22 carpenters and electricians equipped the room with a new heating system, screens, air ventilators, false ceiling. Next day the session was resumed. The room was sweltering. One juror fainted. "Now," bellowed the exasperated justice, "the courtroom...
Said Skater Kit Klein (onetime, 1935-36, North American women's speed skating champion) : "This is the greatest thing next to real...
...report that the migration was paralyzed when viously the wetting Hollywood got was the biggest spectacle since De Mille threw Christians to the lions. Whether this trend will move across the Pacific next winter and submerge all nice Japanese, no one knows. If such a thing happens, the United States will tear up its various interpretations of the flood wave, refuse ever to build for the future, and thereafter depend upon the gods...