Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened. But the center of attraction remained a cluster of neo-Georgian structures along the river--Lowell's new Houses. In late September, the President conducted a press tour of the newly opened Dunster and Lowell. The latter's first High Table was held soon after, and things went up from there...
...architectural monstrosity in a Yard already cluttered with buildings; and most important, a large and vocal group, while in favor of a war memorial, stood strongly opposed to making it a chapel, especially a chapel confined to one religious tradition. Protests aside, however, Appleton came down and Memorial Church went up, its slender steeple rising 200 feet...
...depression continued to affect the life and the practical concerns of the students. Room rents went down and scholarships went up, but the general economic precariousness could not be winked at. The great question was whether the University's "emergency jobs" would be kept going in the face of unemployment; but as more students relied on these jobs, they were extended and kept available...
Trouble was that the barbers and bakers were fair game for tipsters and touters. When rumors went around that the Italo-Suisse company planned to build a pipeline from Genoa to Switzerland, its shares zipped from $138 to $229 in a few days. Last week they worried off to $176. Last fortnight the most aggressive tipster service. I.F.A.S.. rode up the stock of Motor Colombus by 10% in a single day simply by reporting-with no fact or explanation-that it would jump sensationally. Last week the stock lost half its 10% gain, and at least one other hard...
...Roosevelt himself, a small man, clean-shaven, weighing never more than 150 Ibs.. was himself determined to follow in his father's footsteps. Like T.R., he went to Harvard, and like T.R., he went to work roughing it-two years, starting as a $7-a-week millhand in a carpet factory at Thompsonville, Conn., two years as a bond salesman in Wall Street, whose leaders hated his father. Like T.R., he joined the Army as the U.S. got into war; in June 1917, a Reserve Army officer, he went to France with the 26th Infantry Regiment, First Division...