Word: antone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aghast at the whole affair, President Anton J. Carlson of the American Association of University Professors, a University of Chicago physiologist who was on hand as A.A.U.P. s unofficial witness, exploded: "I have not hoped to live to see this kind of meeting. . . . The important thing is not Dr. Frank but the statement by Mr. Wilkie that governors always have insisted upon having a hand in the selection of presidents of State universities. ... I could imagine such a thing happening only in the early days of the Russian revolution by a committee of soldiers and peasants. It has happened here...
...ANTON CHEKHOV-Princess Nina Andronikova Toumanova-Columbia Uni-versity Press...
...recognized as the best Ski-meister in the Alps, Hannes Schneider was hired as leading man in the German Film The Wonders of Skiing. The picture popularized skiing in Central Europe, made Hannes Schneider grand wizard of all Europe's ski wizards. Back in St. Anton, he opened his Arlberg school. First month he had 100 pupils. The next month he had 200. The St. Anton natives he had taught free were useful to Skimeister Schneider. He hired them as associate professors. By 1925, Hannes Schneider's Arlberg Ski School was winter headquarters for most of Europe...
...assistant teachers. Fee for pupils is $5 a week, for four hours a day six days a week. The pupils live in hotels, assemble on a level field each morning, pass examinations in stemming and turning to pass from one class to the next. Having put St. Anton and Arlberg on the map, Hannes Schneider, son of a goat-herder, owns the biggest house in the village (13 rooms, two baths), which he built largely with his own hands. He supports the village band, its school, its hospital and, indirectly, its whole population. In 1930, Hannes Schneider visited Japan...
...while his skis carried him down the slide once or twice to fulfill his function as main attraction of the show whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building a ski-slide from the top of the grandstand...