Word: majority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the cost of labor has become a major item on the budget of the dining halls, the movement for student waiters will probably gain force...
...whom weigh slightly under 130 pounds at present. Clever Junior Ted Schoenberg heads the list and is an absolute certainty to get one of the jobs, and Sophomore Jim Redmon is a good bet for the other one, whichever it is. Another second-year man, Harry Blaine, constitutes their major opposition. Schoenberg and Redmon may either take turns at the reducing task or perhaps a definitely superior combination of the two may be established...
...program: Handel's Concerto Gresso No. 24 (F major), Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Bach's Sonatina from "God's Time is Best," Bach's Concerto for Harpatchord and Strings and Handel's Overture to "Ottone...
Improvement over the form of 1939 in both major winter sports--basketball and swimming--is looked for by Pennsylvania during the 1940 season that will begin late this month. With outstanding sophomores coming up to the varsity and with plenty of veterans left for both teams, the Red and Blue mentors in each sport see Pennsylvania reaching greater heights in its league competition than it did a year ago, when it finished in a tie for fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League and in a triple tie for fifth in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League...
Observing in himself and in hundreds of fellow travelers the same symptoms-"rapid pulse . . . labored breathing, dilated pupils, and a euphoristic tingling"-which characterize "all other major passions, such as love, greed, poetry, and the quintessence of them all, religion," Koeves dignifies travel as a "virus," as "a form of poetry whose raw material is life," as "an instinct second only to that of the passion of love. . . . Cities are more docile mistresses than women. Like women, they require time and money; but of the two they are by far the less demanding and more generous...