Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reign." To one who had lived through so many wars, talk of the problem of the younger generation seemed foolish. "Death had flown in flocks through Gregrannie. She knew its sounds and stinks. The Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Boer War, the World War, had taken their toll...
...University of Iowa (Iowa City), the editor of the Daily lowan launched a campaign to establish a night club in the University's Memorial Union cafeteria, complete with orchestra and refreshments, to "keep the students in the city ... and reduce the highway death and injury toll...
...cause. For this omission it was soundly berated by that pious, prohibitionist magazine, The Christian Advocate. Three weeks ago The New Republic replied editorially: "The reason we did not mention it in our earlier discussion was that our article was confined to the major factors in the annual death toll, which is now running to about 38,000 annually, and we were not and are not aware that drunkenness is one of these factors. The Travelers Insurance Co. . . . while recognizing that statistical information is incomplete and unreliable, estimates that in the year 1935, 3.1% of all drivers in accidents were...
...Author. Three days before Christmas 1935, Mrs. Lester Jacobs, who writes under her maiden name, received word that she had won $10,000 with her first novel (TIME, Jan. 6). Wife of a toll-bridge keeper in Bay St. Louis, Miss., mother of six children, author of many rejected short stories, Mrs. Jacobs learned of her good fortune on her 44th birthday and on her 22nd wedding anniversary. Born in Old Town, Me., she had previously written for local newspapers. After graduation from the University of Maine, she married a classmate and went South with him to make their home...
...this, in spite of the fact that graduation and scholastic difficulties took an almost unprecedented toll among letter men. Among those laid low by probation are Captain Emile Dubiel, who was a stellar end last year, Don Jackson, who bore the brunt of the line bucks, George Blackwood, another back, and Thomas Husband, a line man. In addition to these who were expected back is Leo Ecker, who is still incapacitated by a leg injury suffered in the hockey season last winter...