Word: tow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrolled in English A should have some knowledge of Widener Library. Under the present arrangement, any, such knowledge is obtained only if the student uses the facilities of his own accord. If tow of the themes assigned in the first half year of English A were required to be research papers, that is, themes which result from reading and comparison of reference books, the familiarity of all the students with the reference and catalogue divisions of the library would be increased...
...also recommend that tow of the themes assigned in English A in the first half-year be papers requiring work in Widener with reference books in order that the student will become acquainted with the library facilities...
...four years before he saw England again. Besides his job as ship's doctor he had the un-naval post of naturalist, and intended to keep a weather eye out for Mollusca, Acalephae, Cirripedia, epizoa, Radiata and such. He rigged up a home-made tow-net to snare his specimens, soon ran afoul of the navigation officers, who complained that the net slowed the ship's way, took to dumping his catch overboard when his back was turned. As the long voyage wore on, Huxley found that such setbacks, like the difficulty of peering through his microscope...
...Follow the Fleet" heads a very good bill at the University Theatre today and tomorrow. The Irving Berlin music, sung and danced to perfectly by Fred Astaire and his tow-haired partner, provide hearty amusement. The story, as properly in a musical, is not much, but is gratifyingly free of dear old U. S. Navy claptrap and features a pleasantly satiric song about the Atlantic and the Pacific and "the admiral who's never been to sea." "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket," "Let Yourself Go," "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," and "Where...
...through O.K., they'd dress like preachers, bums, and ambassadors. A redcap in not allowed to charge a passenger for services--take the tip and shut up! is the law. But bootleggers could be hijacked for a buck or more, if you were sure you had one in tow...