Word: loops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...familiar to Chicagoans as Thompson's off-the-arm restaurants was a chain of 23 Raklios eating houses that dotted the Loop and nearby business districts in the early '30s. Almost as familiar was the legend of their bush-browed proprietor John Raklios. He had hit the Loop in 1901, fresh from Greece with $10 in his pocket, had parlayed a basket of fruit into a sidewalk fruit stand, then switched his bet to popular-priced restaurants. In 1928, his top year, his chain did a gross business of $3,600,000, and talkative John Raklios, with...
...Meyer has written some 170 papers and books in long, periodic sentences which loop and wind halfway down the page. To stress the dynamic nature of disease, he invented a new system of classification based on the Greek root erg (from ergon, work). Medical students in his courses, who had to learn such tonguetwisters as ergasiatry (psychiatry), oligergasia (idiocy), merergasia (hysteria), promptly for got them after examinations. Although few understand just what Dr. Meyer says, all his colleagues know what he means. (At a Hopkins celebration once, a student delivered a long speech in Chinese, then announced: "You have just...
...which includes Chicago, has no great reputation for piety. But the Chicago Bible Society is not to blame. Last year in Cook County the Society distributed 530,897 Bibles-whole and in parts. Last week, in the Chicago Temple (which occupies the first three floors of a 21-story Loop skyscraper), the Society celebrated its 100th birthday with a rousing service. Keynoter was its chipper, peppery mainspring and secretary, the Rev. Jesse Lee McLaughlin...
Last week in a third-floor room of Bensinger's billiard parlor in Chicago's Loop, chunky, flat-voiced Willie Hoppe, now a balding man of 52, still using his famous sidearm stroke, added the three-cushion billiard championship to the two he already held (18.1 balkline and cushion caroms). He had to compete against ten of the best players in the game, two of whom, during the course of the double round-robin tournament, succeeded in equaling previous records: one for consecutive points, the other for best (shortest) game. Playing calmly and steadily, muttering occasionally, "Come...
...Overseers seems a sure bet. This is fine. But in the fog of secrecy which shrouds academic politics, it is not clear whether these men are fair test cases, for it seems they are not to be frozen associate professors, but are being promoted via some other budgetary loop-hole...