Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...building program in the history of Gotham's school system, providing for the construction of ninety buildings and the improvement of school playgrounds at a total cost of about $68,000,000. Just like that--nonchalant like! Also, the other day, the Registrar of Columbia University grabbed himself a column of space in the New York press to point out, matter-of-factly, that Columbia's annual budget has been increased from $820,000 to $11,500,000 since the turn of the century, a hardly-to-be-sneezed-at-gain of 1400 per cent...
Surely you have the privilege of selecting your correspondence to appear in the Letter column but we did give you credit for not only a more discriminating taste but also better judgment. Has real news reached such a low ebb that you must resort to matters of this kind? NATHALIE M. THOMPKINS Westfield...
Another of TIME'S well received and cheerfully acknowledged mistakes. Page 13, issue of Feb. 9, last column makes reference to J. J. Parker "Hoovercrat." 'Tis not thus. Judge Parker is an iron bound; rock ribbed; dyed in the wool; etc., Republican. Our "Hoovercrat," one of the few left of an 86,000 majority in 1928, is Frank R. McNinch of Charlotte, now on the Federal Power Commission. Both are esteemed citizens...
...sunrise 36 hours later, scouting planes made their first con tact with the Black fleet moving shoreward in two sections. The old Arkansas, with the heat 133° in her engine room, vainly chased three hostile cruisers who shipped out of range at 32 knots. At dusk another heavy Black column was sighted and viciously attacked by light sea craft in a night engagement. They completely demolished the flying deck of the Black's Langley, thus gaining for the Blues undisputed air control. Thereafter, fighting re solved itself into a series of disjointed engagements...
...best set of guesses by high-school students as to which Italian football team will win which games, Master Vittorio will award prizes. He is his own movie reviewer, conducts a stamp collectors column, prints jokes and puzzles...