Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, representatives from the University, members of the Cambridge city government, the Harvard Square Business Men's Association, and local taxi companies met at the Cambridge City Hall to talk over the traffic conditions in Harvard Square and around the Yard. Officials present at that meeting divided on the method of bettering the dangerous conditions. They sided with the University's suggestion to remove the subway rotunda from the center of the Square and to prohibit the loading and unloading of buses at that point. Another group supported the Boston Elevated Company in its desire to remove the taxi stands...
...addition to a discussion of the schedules, several minor modifications will be made in the standard rules. The events and distances which will form the program of the inter-House swimming meets will be discussed at the meeting on Tuesday. The squash committee will take up the method of choosing the various teams...
...ordering the British Minister at Addis Ababa to tell Emperor Haile Selassie orally what may happen if His Majesty is unwilling or unable to stop slave raiding into Kenya. To prepare the British public for what may happen, loyal London papers called bombing "the only cheap and effective method of pursuing the marauders," declared that against natives "one bomber is worth 35,000 troops...
...This method of posture examination was developed at Harvard, and has been carried on for 12 years. Those men graded D in the fall, have their pictures retaken in the following May, and, due to the body-building exercises which they are obliged to take, a marked improvement has been shown yearly in the postures of the unsatisfactory...
...opposition to a beer bill (which would be a lucrative source of revenue to the government); and secondly the fact that a sales tax would be unlikely to pass Congress. The budget has to be balanced and rather than impose new taxes he has turned to this method of meeting the situation...