Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of professors are. They are primed to make this year's tests a very special set. They will try to concoct something relatively new for Harvard, tutoring-proof examinations and a tutoring-proof system of grading. Of course, they won't succeed entirely--but the ingenuity of a dozen or so Harvard professors should not be under-rated. And for the incredulous student, it would be better to believe now than later...
...careful to avoid Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, upon whom Governor Stark sicked Attorney-General Murphy and got him indicted (TIME, April 17). In Kansas, which went Republican last year, Jim Farley got right down to the grassroots, motored from Salina to Topeka with stops at a dozen towns. Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona were on his course, then California, where he may encounter one ambitious Democrat who can be nominated only over Jim Farley's dead body: Paul Vories McNutt, High Commissioner of the Philippines, who sailed for home last week to start his campaign...
American Airlines was born just ten years ago, when Wall Street suddenly decided that aviation was to be the next great industry. A dozen or so big underwriters formed Aviation Corp., sold $35,000,000 worth of stock and with the proceeds bought up some 80 aeronautical properties, including 9,100 miles of airlines. These were presently lumped into American Airways. As might have been expected, the conglomeration had an operating loss of $3,400,000 in 1930. Successive losses brought continued shake-ups in management until 1932, when Plunger Errett Lobban Cord got control after a spectacular proxy battle...
...Clay and his world of stuff coupled with unerring control goes much of the credit for the team's success. Coach Samborski feels that Clay will bolster the Varsity mound staff next year considerably. Clay gets tougher than over when men are on the bases. He left over a dozen Andoverites stranded on the sacks when the Crimson toppled the Academy boys from the ranks of the undefeated...
...they built themselves what was then the largest and finest concert auditorium in the U. S. Today Cincinnati's enormous, ancient, many-spired Music Hall still stands. The paint on its walls has chipped off and its roof leaks, but it is one of the half-dozen acoustically perfect large auditoriums in the U. S. There, every two years, Cincinnati still gathers its huge Festival Chorus and its Cincinnati Symphony, puts on its big musical event, the Cincinnati May Music Festival...