Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...washing machines in the House basements, allowing a student to run off his week's wash for a few cents. The University had previously faded the hopes of a local capitalist who wanted to install a row of these wash-while-you-wait contraptions, stating that a profit-making scheme could not operate on University property...
Research on a method of training polio victims to use healthy muscles to do the job of paralyzed muscles will also receive March of Dimes support. Dr. Derek E. Denny-Brown., James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, who is perfecting the scheme, points out that even the simplest actions are performed by a "team" of muscles. He feels that these teams can be taught to function even when polio cripples some of the member muscles...
...Warren reached a grand climax in four separate variety shows. With admission fees and the oliebollen sale at intermissions, they grossed 2,200 gulden ($830), more than twice what the committee hoped for. Even that, Borculo admitted, would not help much financially, but already the villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would make a good item. Parchmentmaker Nathan Elzas put aside...
...cigarette, but also distract non-smokers. If smoking were limited to one room, perhaps in the basement, the cost of effective ventilation would not be extravagant and it would be a considerable convenience to all girls. Another universal complaint, which will probably not be fully corrected in the new scheme, concerns the straight wooden chairs. They might have done very well in the more straight-laced days forty years ago, but they seen uncomfortable now. These two defects should be considered before final plans are crystallized...
...fact, not a scheme to spend money, but to save money. Explained the aide: "The whole point of the plan is enlightened self-interest. We don't want to go on forever handing out doles. The Marshall Plan gets them over the hump, but it will be the great, imponderable strength of our technical skills, combined with their manpower and resources that will help these countries...