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Word: schoolers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newcomers is an Englishman named Roger Bennett, a first year Business School student; another is a Chilean Law Schooler named John Cotter. Jack Thompson, a student at the Episcopal Theological School is the third, and sophomore Ken Kunhardt is the remaining untested rugger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugger Team Off to McGill For First Tilt | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...August 1941, Harry Schooler was working on Vega Aircraft's "swing shift" (4 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.). He worked while most people played, and found amusement places closed when he came out to play. One night he rented the Burbank Elks' hall, gave an after-midnight dance (25? for men, women free). He played records for his fellow swing shifters and netted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: King of Swing Shift | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Last spring Harry Schooler took a ten-year lease on Ocean Park's vast Aragon Ballroom (1,500 electric bulbs dimly light its 14,000 square feet of dance floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: King of Swing Shift | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Schooler enterprises now: 1) dances seven nights a week at the Aragon; 2) swing shift dances on Friday and Saturday at Casino Gardens (12:30 to 5 a.m.); 3) Shrine Auditorium dances for Negroes about once a month, whenever a big-name Negro band is available; 4) barn-dancing in the Plantation Ballroom, Culver City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: King of Swing Shift | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Toolmaker Schooler (now on the graveyard shift, 12:30 to 7:30 a.m., at Douglas Aircraft) inspects his interests until about 11:30 each evening, then drives to his $55-a-week job in a green Buick convertible, cream-trimmed. Most of his factory pay goes into war bonds. Most of his dance-hall profit, says he, goes back into the business (decorating and furnishing Aragon took about $50,000). After splitting his holdings with his wife on a cornmumty property arrangement, Factory Worker Schooler had a 1942 income tax of $8,500. Said he, musing: "Ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: King of Swing Shift | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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