Word: chart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...review--the Stage, Book Notes, and Music. The emphasis may underline an American evaluation of the present day, or an estimate of Humanism at Harvard. In all choice of emphasis the policy of each issue will be the realization of the Advocate's editorial aim. The Advocate seeks to chart, by publication of undergraduate and any such other material as is appropriate, where the force of college opinion and interest lies in any field, and the further result of its pressure. There are no limits: the subject may be athletics, scholarship, or poetry...
...newspapermen are notoriously an improvident breed, one shining exception is 35-year-old Talcott Williams Powell, son of an Episcopal rector, godson and namesake of the first director of the Pulitzer (Columbia) School of Journalism. Talcott Powell, anxious to make his mark in the world, has kept a performance chart on himself ever since he was a cub reporter on the New York Sun. Graphing his status from year to year, he projected his curve upward to assistant on the city desk of the New York Herald Tribune, upward to the general managership of the Middletown (N. Y.) Times Herald...
...graph or chart better reflects the success of the farm year than the receipts and attendance figures at State Fairs. What with government bounties and higher agricultural prices, last year was a whopper, best since Depression. Attendance records were well over the 1931-33 figure and, more significantly, carnival show operators reported business increases ranging from 12% at the Illinois Fair to 75% at the Colorado Fair...
...Philadelphia; Vaccines & Serums (measles, rabies, typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox, scarlet fever, tetanus), supervised by Dr. Ralph Chester Williams of Washington. In addition there will be some 200 less extensive scientific exhibits illustrating Medicine's progress. Among the 200 will be Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe's "Chart Life'' of the Dionne Quintuplets...
...seen in such revues as Ritz Revue, Almanac, Earl Carroll's Vanities. Then five years ago Jimmy Savo dropped out of sight. Suddenly last year he popped up again. Almost every month his squinty eyes, bangs and button nose could be found in some glossy smart-chart because Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur were featuring him in a much-publicized cinema-which has yet to be released. That was the signal for Manhattan literati and humorists to "discover" in Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics unanimously predicted, Parade proves to be theatrical medicine too bitter...