Word: various
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past three years Harlow has had various jobs in connection with caring for the different egg collections in and about the University, but he will now have the actual museum work...
...corporate unit that even a temporary resident must shoulder some of the responsibility for the welfare of the social group in which he spends a part of his time. To be sure members of the University have given generously in the past to the support of the various relief agencies of Cambridge and Boston, but previously they have done so under some regional classification other than that implied by membership in the University. For this reason the organization of the present campaign will make possible a more truly representative showing for Harvard, especially if the larger givers will divert their...
...positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges in and around Boston, and the Harvard members of a combined Harvard-Radcliffe team which took part in the first trans-Atlantic spelling bee with Oxford. Among the regular summer jobs the largest earnings went to tutor-companions, $34,429 for 85 jobs, and camp councilors...
...said, was going to be all right. Then tempers (except Bello's) began to burn out. Two Jewish members of the crew reminded the German captain that the Metha Nelson was a ship, not a Nazi concentration camp. He tossed them in the brig. Shore police at various ports of call tossed the rest of the crew in jail for getting drunk. Captain Hoffmann got them out. At sea the crew talked mutiny. In Guatemala the two Jews quit the ship. Bello did not mind. He asked the Captain to marry him to Nurse Husby...
...bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...