Word: uniforms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Juan has the hardest life of any of us," said black eyed Beatriz. "He isn't even allowed to smoke at the Naval Academy. He hasn't a pocket in his English uniform. Think of it! In Spain he's always had all the pockets he wanted...
...first reported to have beaten an aged white man, later to have attempted to attack a white girl. A mob of several hundred broke into the county jail, hanged George Smith, lynchee No. 3 for the year, from a tree on the courthouse lawn. Clad in the uniform of the bottling plant for which he worked, George Smith hung in the tree all afternoon while a crowd chanted: "There'll be a bonfire in the old town to-night...
...trial for misconduct of Berlin's fiscal affairs (TIME, Oct. 20, et ante). As famous in Berlin as U. S. oil's "Little Black Bag" is the "Boess Fur Coat," "bought" by Frau Boess for a tenth part of its value from the Sklarek Brothers, rascally civic uniform contractors...
...would quickness hurry? They were scientific, and what control would their science exercise over their destiny? They were mild, but what corruptions would their relaxation bring? They were peaceful, but by what machinery were their corruptions to be purged? What interests were to vivify a society so vast and uniform? What ideals were to ennoble it? What object, besides physical content, must a democratic continent aspire to attain? For the treatment of such questions, history required another century of experience...
...took up their positions. By 2.45 o'clock the last dormitory crews had fallen into the rear ranks of the Freshman eights. Just as the signal to proceed up the river was given, the Lowell House eight emerged from behind the masonry of the Western Avenue Bridge arrived in uniform striped jersies, derbies, and beards. Its paraphernalia had been lowered from the bridge by an accomplice who employed a Phillips Brooks House clothing drive bag for the purpose. After the first flurry of indignation among the crews and coaches had subsided the unusual aggregation was permitted to take its place...