Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University, a year ago, established courses in the New Deal and prepared students for positions in the various commissions. These graduates naturally found jobs. Perhaps they will be looking for new ones when a new administration, is installed, but they have received some valuable experience and kept the proverbial wolf from the door...
...aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict you. Time and again I have seen Mr. Schuster vote for the acceptance of a book which offered no promise of money, but which seemed to him a work of art deserving of the light of print; Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance may serve as instances. Mr. Schuster is known as an enthusiast, in literature and music, who lets his tastes dictate more of his business than any "opportunist" would dare to do. I am sure that he has forgiven you; but as for myself I wince...
...Hall, sat Mayor Angelo Rossi. The clock on his desk ticked up to 8:01 a. m. That was the zero hour for organized labor to begin the nation's biggest general strike since 1919. For months the U. S. had been hearing talk of such a wholesale walkout. "Wolf!" cried the country when the Detroit automobile tool & die strike faded. "Wolf!" it cried when a Minneapolis truckmen's strike went no farther. "Wolf!" it cried when a general strike failed to materialize in Toledo. "Wolf!" it cried at the threat of a bloody steel strike...
...Francisco the country had a wolf indeed. Into Mayor Rossi's office hurried five other Bay city mayors. Sixty thousand of their 1,200,000 citizens had laid down their tools, left their jobs. Like New York's Mayor LaGuardia, conscientious Mayor Rossi is of Italian parentage. Born in Volcano, Calif, in 1878, he got his start in life ten years later by delivering flowers in San Francisco, rose to be president of big Pelicano Rossi Floral Co. He got his start in politics in 1914 when the late "Sunny Jim" Rolph, then Mayor of San Francisco, appointed...
...President and Mrs. Conant, and little Conants; members of the Board of Overseers, Faculty members, distinguished visitors, Deans, Advisers, Tutors, Coaches, the Boat, the Bursar, parents, friends of the family, and you, Seniors, black reed wolves with your so called sheep's clothing, being sheep in wolf's clothing as you are. For the past few months our time has been occupied by composing the Class Poem, Oration and Ode. While these trifling effluvia of course required no deep concentration or constructive thought, yet we found that there was a certain fascination in this game of clothing Mother Goose rhymes...