Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vernon Struck continued to display his line ploughing abilities, tunneling the Jayvees' primary defense for long gains. George Roberts, returning to the A backfield quartet, drew praise from Harlow for his hard running...
...requirement that women friends of students must enter the Houses in groups or not at all is an unwarranted display of paternalism on the part of University Hall, ridiculous in its conception and a nuisance in its effect. The history of Harvard social life during the five years of the House plan gives no excuse for such Pinkerton tactics, while the regulation itself points the finger of suspicion at every young lady who has ever been entertained unchaperoned within Harvard walls...
...York William Randolph Hearst paid $30,000 to satisfy claims for a fireworks explosion nearly 34 years ago in which 17 persons were killed, 17 crippled for life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar which blew...
Work by the Social Service Committee has become increasingly important. Great progress has been made toward eliminating the peculiarly aloof and patronizing air college men so frequently display when engaged in social service activity. In the not so distant past the security of their own future insulated their minds to any relative application of the distress encountered to their own lives and position in society. Direct contact with the results of unemployment insecurity, and poverty has brought today greater realization of their importance and position to the average undergraduate...
When President Lowell, in the face of much opposition, founded the Business School, the opportunity was given for an interesting display of intellectual snobbishness. Hidebound conservatives in the field of education refused to see in a graduate school for the training of business men anything more than another novelty which would perish at its first encounter with the "cold, cruel world" of business itself. Even now, many professors continue to regard Mr. Donham and his staff as coming from the "wrong side of the Charles River...