Word: trims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Modern efficiency has given substantial blackboards, trim cabinets with brass locks, skylights and shrewd ventilating systems to the classrooms of U. S. public schools. But the "art objects" on the walls have changed little since the days of slates and coal stoves. Pupils are still schooled among lithographs of George Washington crossing the Delaware, paintings of cows and baskets of fruit, cheap etchings of Longfellow and Lincoln...
...Swedish locomotive, trim and bright, puffed forth from the Turkish Capital at Angora last week, and drew a salon car in which rode the great Ismet Pasha swiftly along 240 miles of new roadbed, linking Angora with the hinterland of Asiatic Turkey...
...University eight a respite today, permitting the squad to accept the invitation of J. Pierpont Morgan '89 to spend the day aboard his palatial steam yacht, Corsair. Yale's first and second crews are also inactive, taking an excursion as the guests of General W. W. Skiddy on his trim power cruiser, Runabout...
...yoke of thorns!" cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral...
Last week in Manhattan, wispy-haired kitchen sluts, broad-hipped Irish cooks, trim, self-conscious society matrons went to school. Housekeeping, a group of capable society women had decided, ought to be a profession, needs trained executives and employes. So, led by Mrs. Richard Boardman, Mrs. Henry F. Patterson, they founded Scientific Housekeeping, Inc., a co-operative organization that teaches housekeepers how to treat their servants, servants how to be efficient and capable' workers. Each cook, maid, laundress, is instructed until she is ready for a job, is then placed by the Corporation in a position where she is guaranteed...