Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard has rolled dizzily in Harkness millions. Harvard has watched some hundred thousands in Krueger and Toll swirl gently into a financial maelstrom. But through New Era and New Deal, oblivious to both, fingers of steel have clasped the purse-strings of Lehman Hall. To the undergraduate, Arthur L. Endicott has been the symbol of an impersonal and mechanical bureaucracy, a vague object for resentment about high room rents, and monotonous food, and broken fire doors. To those who know him by sight, the tall, straight-backed figure, with solemn expression, steely-gray hair, and amazing height of starched white...
...words were airily swept aside as sour grapes. But last week a sense of shocked surprise ran through the land. Citizens began to wonder if, after all, the commercial operators were not right, if President Roosevelt was not wrong on his airmail policy. Newspaper editors wailed loudly that the toll of the Army's first week with the airmail was too high a price to pay for "purging" commercial aviation of some wrongdoing that was not yet satisfactorily proved. At the Capitol the White House was accused of "legalized murder." Able Correspondent Arthur Krock reported for his New York...
...summary: HARVARD NEW HAMPSHIRE Fletcher, Grady, rf. rf., Bronstein, Kohler, Ranclynoski Merry, Comfort, Ernst, lf. lf., Joslin, Toll, Rogers Morse, Boys, c. c., Targonski, Walker, Robinson Ferriter, rg. rg., Demers, Wilde, Stegianos Henderson, lg. l.g., McKiniry, Armstrong...
There are more carillons and bell towers in Belgium than in any other country in Europe. Next morning in every village and town the deepest bell in every tower began to toll. The last time they had sounded like that was 1914. This was not the next war, but the passing of one of the greatest heroes of the last. Albert King of the Belgians was dead...
...past three years one of their chief strongholds has been the 'Catacombs,' as Moscow calls an acre-wide range of cellars under an enormous unfinished pre-War building right in the center of the city. The jungle life of these catacombs demanded such a toll of blood, so many corpses were thrown naked upon the outer snow, that the authorities have put a high wooden fence around the entire area and plan next year to raze this whole city block. . . . Suddenly there materializes beside you a group of children, seven, ten, and twelve years old. They have gnomelike...