Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, to utilize an entrance to the subway now concealed by Foster's Restaurant. Before the rotunda was built, plans were made to have three exits or entrances, one next to Lehman Hall, the only one of the three now in use; one on the site of the tobacco shop on the corner adjoining the Harvard Cooperative Society Building; and one where Foster's Restaurant now stands, and these last two passageways were constructed and are now ready to use. However, the report of the committee has stated nothing concerning the betterment of parking conditions at the present time
...books are signed, apparently was much interested in influencing undergraduate opinion on everyday topics. Hence, there are editorials written by him on the support of the debating and chess teams; another preaches against the use of tobacco at football games because it annoyed the ladies present; and beside one vehement article on the subject of taking ladies to chapel appears a scribbled indictment of "fussing at Vespers...
Unlike our modern cigarette-smoking age, tobacco was not allowed except by permission of the President, with consent of the parent or guardian, "and then in a sober and private manner." It was also voted that every student must be in his room by nine o'clock under penalty of a fine, and no one could go to Boston except by special permission, without being subject to a five dollar penalty. In 1656, the President and Fellows were empowered "to punish all misdemeanors--either by fine, or whipping in the hall openly, as the nature of the offence shall require...
...reports the Southern Baptist Handbook for 1932, published last week. Listed as money misspent: $46,200,000 a year on tobacco; $26,000,000 on cinema; $21,580,000 on automobile outings; $35,000,000 on soft drinks and chewing gum; more than $43,000,000 on cosmetics. The Southern Baptist Church needs $40,000,000. "Look about you. . . . quit YOUR WHINING!" cries the Handbook...
...crowd of hangers-on, hired an interpreter. He made numerous visits to the office of American Express Co., dined with President John C. Eliasco of the Bank of Athens. He had a two-and-a-half-hour conference with Ery Kehaya, fork-waving president of Standard Commercial Tobacco Co. of Manhattan...