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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be 10 cruising units and a relief unit. In addition, stations with telephones are ready for the use of motorists, and ready for the use of motorists, and can be easily identified by their illuminated signs and green lanterns. Patrolmen have complete emergency supplies in their trucks or cars, including gasoline, axes, shovels, tow ropes and fire extinguishers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Road Patrol for Skiers | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...fashion of the arrangement at Boylston, it would save a great many unnecessary steps, and would make it possible to return books late at night instead of early in the morning. To prevent damage to the books thus returned, a slightly inclined chute--similar to those now in use at Columbia University--might be provided. Since a delivery system is neither intricate nor expensive there should be no serious objection to its immediate installation; and if the extensive use of the Boylston chute, which handles approximately a thousand books a month, is any indication, such an innovation is very worthwhile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...much confused as observers here and abroad; every one finds it simple to discover a bit of everything in the situation. As the dust settles on Paris, trade and transportation roll again, and Jouhaux, secretary-general of the C. G. T., admits, that Daladier's requisition order and use of military force brought a resumption of work, it seems possible to make some sense out of Europe's first general strike since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR DEMOCRACY'S SAKE | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

Chief of Police Timothy Leahy ordered the raid after repeated warnings to car owners not to leave their cars on the east side of the street had failed. When cars are parked on both sides of the street the fire engines, which use Quincy as one of their chief thoroughfares, are prevented from going through, police officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE HAUL OFF TEN CARS IN SUDDEN RAID | 12/1/1938 | See Source »

Athletics vs. "Athleticism" is the latest product of Chicago's President Hutchins, who may in turn be called either public-spirited or publicity-spirited, depending on one's views, "Athleticism," he says, "attracts boys and girls to college who do not want and cannot use a college education." And although there are rather few institutions which make a practice of going out and hiring a topnotch feminine field hockey aggregation, there is, nevertheless, a lot of truth in this new attack on athletic over-emphasis. Let us use two colleges as examples, both of them institutions which are not mentioned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MR. HUTCHINS AGAIN | 11/29/1938 | See Source »

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