Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ridden wharves of Scotland's Glasgow. Most of the Gorbals' massive grey granite houses were built a century ago when thousands of poor laborers began to arrive in Glasgow. Now 85,000 human beings cram its 252 acres. In many of its tenements 30 people share a single doorless toilet, and the odor of garbage hangs heavy in the stairwells. There is an undertaker on every other block. A Gorbals girl summed up life there: "The cat sleeps with us. If a rat runs over the blankets, he springs...
Dividends will be payable on all policies which were in force for a period of three or more months, and will be paid on all types of policies. Policies now lapsed, but which meet the three-month requirement, will share in the benefits...
Jane Rainie '50 and Alice Steer '50 will share the chairmanship of the new dormitory-commuter committee. Elizabeth Menzel '51 will wield the baton at the annual Annex song contest on the Quadrangle this term. Mia Atherton '51 was named to head the Alumnae fund committee...
...divorce) was easily the biggest public wedding ever seen in San Francisco. Fans climbed trees and stood on rooftops to catch a glimpse of the couple leaving the church. Joe made more news as baseball's balkiest holdout. Then, too, he seemed to suffer more than his share of injuries; fans were forever reading accounts of sore arms and pulled ligaments...
...Louisville, Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, who evidently does not share President Truman's fears that a Republican administration would cause a depression, told a bankers' meeting that he expected continued prosperity for years ahead. Said Snyder: "We have only begun to tap the billions of savings built up during the war years...