Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intimated that probably more than half the Austrians, although admitting no faith can be placed in a plebiscite sponsored by either Hitler or Schuschnigg, welcome Nazi domination. In commenting at the close of the speech, Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, contended that Nazi support has dwindled from a possible majority two years ago to about 40 per cent today...
...winter athletic season draws to a close, captains of three 1938-1939 teams, basketball, hockey, and swimming, will be elected this afternoon when official pictures of the 1937-38 teams are made at the Dillon Field House...
...close of the 1936-37 season last spring, Manager Specter and his socialite executive board set out to get 1) a stout purse, 2) a first-rate conductor, 3) top-notch musicians, announced a drive for $300,000, proposed to import seven well-known conductors for guest appearances. The drive was a success. To Pittsburgh went successively: 1) gaunt, funereal Otto Klemperer, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic; 2) Cincinnati's Eugene Goossens; 3) Fritz Reiner; 4) Mexico's Carlos Chavez; 4) NBC's Walter Damrosch; 6) Michel Gusikoff, former concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...Testifying before the Senate Committee to Investigate Unemployment and Relief, Franklin Roosevelt's close friend and adviser, Financier Bernard Baruch, fired "the heaviest gun yet brought up" against the Administration by blaming Governmental policies for the current upsurge in unemployment...
...Winthrop House gentlemen were a great deal less anxious to see the recent exam period come to a close than most students. In a rash moment they had sworn mighty oaths to stop smoking on the day of their last exams--a promise which both of them, being inveterate smokers, found difficult to keep. But, being men of determination, they were observing the unwelcome vows under which they labored when they met for dinner last night...