Word: planked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury awarded $2800 to Richard C. Waterman of Worcester yesterday in his suit against Harvard University for injuries received when a plank broke in the Stadium at the Harvard-Holy Cross game...
...rising was indicated last week by results of a New York Herald Tribune questionnaire. Of nearly 5,000 U. S. newspaper and farm journal editors who replied, two-thirds reported their communities solidly behind some compulsory government sys tem of old age pensions. Of many another New Deal plank, only minimum wages and maximum working hours got a bare majority of editors' eyes. Says Dr. Townsend: "Poverty once considered a natural curse which the human race was doomed to endure, can and will be abolished in the United States within the next five years, never to return...
...Greenfield. Mo., termites munched their way through the heavy plank floor of the county courthouse, continued on to other pastures. Last week when the county clerk made one of his rare visits to the record room, he found most of the record books chewed to small shreds. One fat volume was eaten to the last morsel...
...Press promptly recalled five other liberal professors who have lately walked Pitt's plank. Friends brandished an investigation by American Association of University Professors. Labor leaders promised a huge protest meeting. Led by a June graduate of Pitt named Marjorie Hanson, the League for Social Justice called for Chancellor Bowman's resignation, promised a house-to-house canvass of Pitt students. State Democratic Chairman David L. Lawrence suggested that at its next session the Legislature might well cut Pitt off its lifeline of State...
...Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge-bearer, joined Publisher Beck and Professor Aldo Leopold of University of Wisconsin on President Roosevelt's Committee on Wild-Life Restoration. The Committee's program, last week awaiting President Roosevelt's approval, has for its major plank the conversion of submarginal farm lands into game reservations and breeding grounds. Created in 1886, the Biological Survey is the Federal Government's chief wildlife conservation agency. In laboratory & field its agents study animal habits and diseases, experiment with the raising of game and furbearers, stamp out predators of game...