Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child. It was first just an idea, bounded north & south by hope, east & west by nerve. Crossing their Rubicon before they even started to march, Welles & Houseman leased the Comedy Theatre for five years, renamed it the Mercury, then started looking for their first play. When they found Julius Caesar, they started looking for the money to produce it. Houseman combed Wall Street, got dibs & drabs, enough to keep the cast stringing along...
...line prepared last week to dismiss 1,200 men for good & all, Panama Pacific expressed the hope that the Maritime Commission would buy the three idle ships, charter them for operation by other companies between New York and the east coast of South America...
...hurdles Mason Fernald '40, will have an opportunity to show his worth against Jack Donovan, Hartman, and Bill Watson, a trio of some of the strongest hurdlers in the East. The quarter-mile should also be an interesting spectacle with Jim Lightbody '40 pitted against Jud Foster. Warren King of Dartmouth will be a strong contender in both the broad jump and the dash...
...that the present generation of youth has no inhibitions in relation to word use as well as otherwise," Professor Edwin R. Hunter (head of the English department) and Student Bernice E. Gaines examined the freshman class, seniors and the faculty in Maryville College, a small co-educational institution in east Tennessee. They chose 62 words that once were or still are widely considered offensive, asked the students and teachers to indicate whether they used the words: 1) as freely as cat or dog, 2) with a feeling of being bold or modern, 3) only when talking to intimates, 4) never...
...most lists, it looked as if the newer books were coming into their own, with C. Vann Woodward's Tom Watson reported as a best-seller in Atlanta, Holy Old Mackinaw a leader on the West Coast, Lewis Mumford's The Culture of Cities popular in the East, and Einstein & Infeld's The Evolution of Physics selling widely (3,000 in its first week) all over the country. Last month's published lists boiled down to these headliners...