Word: evens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...popular music, from groaner's moan to Dixieland jazz, is a highly exportable commodity. So the State Department has learned from its new international disc jockey, Martin Block, whose weekly half-hour of music and informal chatter has become the Voice of America's most popular program. Even behind the Iron Curtain, where Communists are furiously attacking "decadent American music," thousands of recalcitrant Slavs continue to carry a torch for Dinah Shore or Gene Autry, Benny Goodman or Lena Home. Last week the Czech government skirmished with some of these incorrigibles and came off badly scorched...
...midst of the storm, Jefferson refused the judge's conditions. Although "the college has even been maintained and operated exclusively for students of the white race," it would not accept the endowment, said its trustees, if it had to teach the superiority of Anglo-Saxon and Latin American races or bar Jewish students. After that the judge withdrew his offer. Jefferson seemed back where he found it. "The school is operating at a loss," said one of the trustees. "We plan to close ... at the end of the year, under present conditions...
Furthermore, said Harris, college graduates could expect their salary advantage (over non-college men & women) to dip even more than it has. In 1940, the college man earned about 32% more than the American average; by 1948 he was making only 10% more. "The time may come," warned Harris, "when, on an average, the college-trained worker will earn less than the non-college worker...
...Five of the Specials have been won by all-conquering Calumet Farm, two of them in "walkovers" by Whirlaway and Citation, whose championship claims no other stable could even challenge...
...beat them (55-46) in the second of three games (the Oilers had won the first, 38-29). The fans, who could scarcely believe their eyes, carried the local heroes away on their shoulders and the Buenos Aires Critica proclaimed that it was "David and Goliath all over again." Even though the Oilers won the finale, 71-52, Argentine sponsors felt so good about the whole thing that they were dickering with the Oakland (Calif.) Bittners, the A.A.U. champs, to come down next...