Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...liberal share of gray matter, will consider legibly written offers of less than 500 words from prospective employers. A further specification states that these offers must be written on only one side of the paper, and, of course, it should be understood that neatness is a decided asset. Also, it is more than subtly hinted that here is an unrivaled opportunity for some progressive firm to secure a valuable addition to its personnel...
...Stanford University, sent in a thick, beautifully written report which read like a modern college textbook. Sample: "Continental conservation is the key to the future of this Nation. . . . Conservation is a term, around which much confusion has reigned. Conservation means wise use. Wise use means that a natural asset shall be used for the proper purpose and at the right time...
...Kowarsky '31, J. A. Marcu '31, R.I. Nitkin '31, I. R. Rose '31, M. H. Silton '31, and J. A. Smith '31. Edmund Dorfman '33 and P. S. Barrabee '33, new additions to the team, did fine work all season, their speed proving to be a valuable asset...
...boxing that prospective members of Harvard's first organized boxing team should master in the opinion of Jack Sharkey, American heavyweight champion, who was recently interviewed at his home in the exclusive residential section of Chestnut Hill. Sharkey declared that a good left hand was the most valuable asset in boxing and when skillfully used paved the way for all other blows...
Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns - the Easterner whose father has banished him to the badlands. But biggest asset to the show is the person of Ethel Merman who, as a honkeytonk singer, strolls out on the stage at the Act I finale and electrifies spectators by shouting "Sam & Delilah," an extremely low-down Gershwinian num - ber with a deep blue base. It is also Miss Merman who, in another piece, croons...