Word: unite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years of college have been divided under the House Plan into two distinct periods. Harvard is perhaps unique among colleges in the extent to which the Freshman year is set apart as a unit. Besides living together in the Yard, the first-year men have their own eating and recreational center in the UNION, now turned over to their exclusive use. In athletics there is a complete set-up of Freshmen teams, while the intramural sports are being organized on a dormitory basis corresponding to the inter-House program of the uppercases...
...believe most of these destroyed planes belong to an air unit normally stationed near Tokyo. It had originally 52 heavy bombers made of German metal, equipped with American 14-cylinder engines, British machine guns and Japanese radio. . . . We believe the unit has lost half its planes...
...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
...blowing hard. So far neither Mrs. Scott, the former Margaretta Morris, nor anyone else can play the probosciphone which Mr. Scott bought from a street vendor for a dime. Lawyer Scott also enjoys philosophical speculation. He thinks there are "at least 50,000,000 people" who cannot define a "unit." His own definition: "A unit is anything that anybody chooses to consider as such...
...middle of the second day of debate. At the end of the fifth day Senators wearily voted, 64-to-16, for a Housing Bill gutted by conservative amendments. Anti-Administrationist Harry Byrd called attention to Resettlement Administration's Greenbelt in Maryland, which cost $16,000 per family unit, and Hightstown Project in New Jersey ($20,000 per unit). Then he demanded a construction limit of $4,000 per family unit and $1,000 per room. "A spokesman for the Administration," he cried, "said . . . that this was an experiment, and that all experiments were costly...