Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very proud, was nothing but "screeching." What else the members read as they passed the letter around, none of them cared to repeat. Some members studied the handwriting, glanced suspiciously at other members. Accusations were made, bitterly denied. Two more letters came to members, both in the same handwriting. Worst of it was that some things in them were Sorosis secrets. Old friends stopped speaking on the street...
...separate disease was in England in 1784. First known case in the U.S. was in 1841. Vermont had the first U.S. epidemic, with 132 cases, in 1894. In 1907 and 1908 New York City had 2,000 cases, 130 deaths. In 1916 occurred the nation's worst epidemic of the disease. New York City had 8,928 cases, of whom 27% died. That year 7,130 children died of infantile paralysis in the U.S. In 1921 Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted the disease. In 1931 Brooklyn was terrified by an epidemic which laid 4,000 children low. Last summer California...
Results of public ownership propositions in local elections on Nov. 6 had been anything but reassuring. By last week it looked as if the utilities were in for one of their worst spells of political badgering. In Washington the Federal Trade Commission, in the eighth year of its holding company probe, released a fresh batch of hair-raising findings. The new Federal Communications Commission announced a thoroughgoing investigation into American Telephone & Telegraph Co. A.T. & T. stock promptly plunged $10 per share, and President Walter Sherman Gifford felt impelled to assure his security holders that there were no skeletons...
...Angeles' Republican County Central Committee, he believes that on adult issues students should hold their tongues "until they have mastered the tools which the race has found indispensable." Last fortnight he shocked and startled the State by declaring that his campus had become "one of the worst hotbeds of Communism...
After these strong words the worst menace the Provost could produce was the local chapter of National Students League. A pinko organization which maintains a small, noisy existence on many a U. S. campus, the League devotes itself chiefly to crying down compulsory military training. At U. C. L. A. it has about 20 members...