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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before it gets crowded, and get a bite to eat. Hmm! Not very hungry though, in spite of the work he'd been doing lately. Exams seem to take it out on your nervous system, more than anything else. Guess he'd let it go at a club sandwich, and fortify himself with something else later on in the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...club sandwich is what it says, waiter. My, that was a pretty piece of femininity stepping down the aisle between the tables. He had not realized how long it was since he'd laid eyes on a beautiful girl. The tailored suit, the soft grey hat covering the source of a wave of yellow curls, were stunning. Oh, too bad, she'd stalked right by and sat down at another table. Well, he'd soon be in New York. Never mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...without some reservations, some risk, but to think that any job at all will answer the perplexing question of what life work is best for him is absurd; he might better spend the time reading novels. This is not on idle suggestion, and if he were to sandwich in a few biographies he might learn much more about the world of work, enough at least to stimulate him to further investigation...

Author: By Donald H. Moyer, | Title: Placement Office Is Only for Career Seekers, Not Temporary Job Hunters | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

...Faribault, Minn.; a missionary who was denounced by Senators and generals for his defense of the Indians after the Sioux Outbreak in 1862; an ecclesiastical leader who conferred with Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln, preached in most of the cathedrals of England and turned down the bishopric of the Sandwich Islands because he thought his work in Minnesota needed him more. Born in upper New York State in 1822, Whipple studied in the abolitionist hotbed of Oberlin Institute, married at 20, became a "rational abolitionist," a conservative Democrat, a politician, a businessman, before his wife persuaded him to take Holy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bishop's Junket | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

They carried large sandwich boards reading "Scalp the Scalpers," and "Eliminate the scalper and other insects from Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H.A.A. Detectives and Student Pickets Move to Combat Swarming Speculators | 11/17/1937 | See Source »

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