Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year approaches its close, I prefer to particularly think (sic) of the boys who are to be rewarded for their interest and effort by a recommendation to the effect that their record, in all respects, is good; that their attitude has been satisfactory and is changing for the better; that their viewpoint towards the future is sensible and sound; that they, in short, have done the best they could to get full value out of the present school year...
...Commencement Day, as the year officially closes, the Huntington School diploma will be awarded to those who have earned it. Now it is as good a time as any to congratulate these young men and to wish them success as they face the future. May they continue to find rewards for good work done as other years in their life experience open and close. C. H. Sampson, in the Huntington Record...
...best, the world's biggest university, with 24,000 fulltime students, seven campuses. Minnesota's Guy Stanton Ford, 66, is Sproul's opposite-small, frail, quietly witty, a famed history scholar who favors the theoretical rather than the practical side of politics. His institution comes close to being the most enterprising State university. Five years ago its General College was a bold experiment to provide misfit students with a broad, unclassical education. Today it is widely copied...
...geography that established Baldwin on tidewater, and the shrewdness of former President Samuel Vauclain, who bought 61% of Midvale Co. in 1926. For well over half of Midvale's business-U. S. armament-does not swing with the ordinary cycles of depression, is bringing Baldwin Locomotive as close to the black as it can come when U. S. railroads are deep in the red. For Midvale is a specialist in pressing armor plate and forging heavy gun barrels from high-grade steel...
...while Lear was a Pre-Raphaelite. With Painters Holman Hunt and J. E. Millais (whom Lear called "Uncle" when he didn't call him "Aunt"), Lear once shared a farmhouse studio. Close friends of Lear were Poet Laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson and his wife, with whom Lear had his closest feminine friendship. But Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is so carefully unmentioned in Lear's long letters and diary that Author Davidson thinks Lear may have been jealous of the author of Alice in Wonderland...