Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This Freshman class, the class of 1939, excelled the record of the previous year's Freshman class. This year 25.4 per cent of the class of 1939 passed with honors, minimum marks of 3 1-2 B's and 1-2 C, in comparison to the 21.6 per cent figure made by the class of 1938 in its freshman year. The number this year in the lowest rank group was 5 per cent, in comparison to the figure of 8.6 per cent for the class of 1938 in the previous year...
...biggest and smartest U. S. advertisers to get their glamour this season at the nation's glamour headquarters: Hollywood. As evidence of Radio's Hollywood trend, admen pointed to a dozen important programs scheduled to be regularly broadcast from the cinema capital this season, in comparison with last season's four or five. With Radio thus definitely established in Hollywood, cinemactors gazed bug-eyed with joy at Variety's report that "[Radio] salaries of $10.000 and over for individual names for single performances may be paid," and that "over a 39-week season . . the lowest requirement...
...arrive at a satisfactory result would be impractical. On the Olympic program there are 22 sports, each containing numerous events, and no two nations would be likely to agree on their comparative importance. Nonetheless, to provide a convenient summary of the Games and some sort of basis for comparison, U. S. sports writers long ago invented a system of tabulation. Considering kayak-paddling the equivalent of foot-racing and awarding ten points for each first place, five for each second, four for third and so on down to one for sixth in each event, Germany had the highest number...
Actually, the U. S. always wins the Olympic Games because its entrants are not only ablest, but most numerous. To arrive at some sort of basis for comparison, sports writers long ago invented a system for tabulating all events on the basis of ten points for first place, five for second, four for third and so on down to one for sixth. Graded by this system, the first six countries in men's track & field events, after eight days of competition, were last week as follows: U. S. 203 points Finland 80½ points Germany 69¾ points Japan...
Relay. Last week's opening ceremonies were the last stage in a concentrated year-long ballyhoo which made the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, loudest previous sports event in history, seem, by comparison, as quiet as a race between two trained fleas around the brim of a felt hat. Climax was the Torch Relay from Olympia to Berlin which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch...