Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commencement Day speakers differ from the Class Day speakers in that the latter are elected by the Senior Class as an independent unit, while the Commencement Day speakers represent the University as a whole. The Class Day oration is primarily a class affair and so is elective...
...Pennsylvania State College last winter, when several members of the R. 0. T. C. unit scored low in rifle practice, the deficient ran the gauntlet between their fellows who flogged an with cartridge belts. In Manhattan last week, when this news reached the Committee on Militarism in Education, the Committee's Secretary publicly complained to the Secretary of War, who turned the matter over to Chief of Staff Malin Craig, who ordered a thorough investigation. Explained the unit's Major Arthur Bowen: "A prank...
...cause of this talk was the tendency for costs to rise faster than sales, so that many a company was reporting smaller profits on greater volume of business. It was merely a matter of time before increasing sales would outstrip increasing expenses, thereby cutting the cost of each unit they produced. Last week the return of profitable prosperity was conspicuously evident in at least three industries...
Tackling practice is taking up more and more of the time, and the results are apparent. Both backs and linemen are being put through the rigorous course and by next fall every man on the squad should form a strong defense unit...
Unlike Greyhound, Trailways is not a corporation. It is an association of five big bus companies, three little ones, each with individual franchises, terminals, routes. Each will continue to act as a separate unit, run only its own busses. But all busses will be painted a common cream & maroon, bear a common name, issue through tickets on each others' lines, will therefore to the public seem identical in function with Greyhound. Only difference will be that Trailway riders will change busses frequently, no great disadvantage because bus riders constantly have to get out anyway...