Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally agreed throughout the system that no one works harder on the B. & O. than President Willard. He gets up early, works late. Once he told Jim, porter of his office car, No. gg, to wake him at 5 a. m. As the dawn was breaking, the blackamoor felt a tug at his covers, looked up into "Uncle Dan's" smiling face. "Wake up, Jim," said President Willard. "It's 5 o'clock...
...growth of athletic activity which will come in the wake of Yale's House Plan has made the reported action timely. The advance recognition of the essential part to be played by formal and informal sports in the social fabric of the new Yale is evidence of a far-sighted policy in New Haven. The inclusion of undergraduates as well as business and academic representatives on the new board of control presages an athletic administration at once broad-minded and qualified to cope with the problems that will be peculiar to Yale...
Today's utilitarian temper, like a wood, rank or otherwise, is wedging its way between the mossy old stones of scholastic tradition. And the Harvard Houses, in their frantic game of leap-frog with Oxford and Cambridge, may yet wake up to find themselves more English than modern England itself...
...Statesman & Nation, Scientist Louis Herrman revived and elaborated Author Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians in their prime might...
Last week rail bonds sank perilously close to their lows for the year in the wake of a liquidation which carried railroad common stock averages below their 1931 lows. On all sides the whisper was heard that savings banks were selling their holdings rather than await an avalanche of selling after the first of the year. This whisper was highly unlikely since many months will elapse before even the weakest of issues will be outlawed by bank examiners. Selling by managers of trust funds was certainly an important factor in the decline, but the deduction from this that savings banks...