Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students electing courses of study which begin in the second half-year are required to attend the first meetings, in the rooms named below...
Nathan Isaacs, professor of Business Law, will offer the first course in the new program. It is entitled "Introduction to Public Aspects of Business" and will begin in May. Men completing this course may then choose Public Administration as their field of concentration in the second year...
...developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
Tamara is the type of all Norris heroines, who are so alike that not even their creator herself can recall all of them. Little ladies, they usually begin without money. Life treats them roughly, and more than one of them has had to cope with the burden of bearing an illegitimate child. But they are never defiled by pitch; they always sin through kindness or trustfulness; they ultimately marry. They improve their minds by studying French, Italian, music, cooking. Model girls, they are just what Mrs. Norris' large, enthusiastic audience of older women, young stenographers, people of circumscribed life...
...Widow Cagle in Lula Vollmers play of southern mountaineer white trash, Sun-Up (see front cover), Mrs. Norris was worried because the role required a series of hearty pulls on a corncob pipe. She had never smoked in her life, thought herself at 54 too old to begin. But her stage director was adamant. So, experimenting first with cubebs, later with cubeb tobacco stuffed into the bowl, she eventually learned to keep the corncob puffing. She now confesses to enjoying a smoke, is having difficulty breaking herself of the habit...