Word: walls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle of the corrupt business which it is trying to clean up) it has told of Yale's perverted passion for "campus prestige." Everyone, we are informed, dives into the rough-and-tumble for extra-curricular honors. No place at Yale for the lonely stag, the wall flower; every man has to make his "Y" in something or other. Studies can ride--they're not important. But the canker is even more loathsome than this; for almost every "activities" man is living a lie. He doesn't write for the Record or the News because he likes to, but because...
...with sundry other material in the steel shaft down at Oglethorpe which is to be opened in the year 8000. Beyond this, the big fight reminds them of tempests and teapots. Harvard men, with their much publicized and smugly-prized indifference, fall off of the other side of the wall. Which is the worse is a decision for the gods. Mortals can hope, however, for a meeting some day at the top of the wall...
...memorial were the events which the 76th Congress thus celebrated. The ist Congress met on March 4, 1789. Because of the conditions of the roads, and the casualness of Congressmen, a quorum of both Houses could not be mustered until April 6. Their meeting place was Federal Hall at Wall and Nassau Streets, Manhattan (pop. 30,000). President-elect George Washington did not arrive until April 23, was inaugurated April 30. Before the inaugural, Vice President John Adams, having a great regard for ceremony but no precedent to go on, was completely flummoxed. Said he to the Senate...
...Wall Street Journal this week headlined: BUSINESS IN 15-WEEK SIDEWISE MOVE; BREAK EXPECTED TO BE ON 'UP' SIDE. Evidence to support this conclusion abounded. Such sensitive indexes as scrap steel and commodity prices were up. Steel production at 55.1% of capacity was near the year's peak. Automobile output rose, National Distillers Products Corp. filed the first large industrial bond issue ($22,500,000) since November. And the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages climbed to 149.49, a gain of 13 points from the year's low on January...
Villain of the piece is a Wall-Streeter named George Wheaton, a graduate of tiny, semipublic, coeducational Clifford Academy. He wants to give Clifford one of his easy millions, on condition that the school become private, preferably for boys only, and that Jews be excluded...