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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realize that I am too light in weight to withstand the gruelling endurance test of a long distance swim. I want to swim around Manhattan Island then do both the English Channel and the Hellespont. That means I'll have to put on some extra poundage. Quite a lot of it, for I weigh only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Didrikson Decision | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...50th Anniversary Number included an extra supplement devoted to Grit, its history, its family. Peering from the front page was a large photograph of Founder-Publisher Lamade whose white hair is the only sign of his age?73. He was a $12-a-week printer on the Williamsport Daily Sun & Banner in 1882 when Grit first appeared as the Banner's Saturday afternoon edition. It made a poor start. Its publishers were about to scrap it when Printer Lamade got two other men to help him buy it, publish it separately in another shop. Grit Publishing Co. was founded with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grit | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...years ago Walter Rautenstrauch, professor of industrial engineering at Columbia University and extra curricula a commercial industrialist, gave Howard Scott a room at Columbia, told him to put the Technosocial ideas on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technocrat | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...been accepted have been out of college from two to 12 years. Further estimates indicate that about one fifth of those admitted have qualified for the course through executive experience in business, instead of by a college degree. Enrollment is necessarily-limited by the facilities available for the extra session, and admission is based upon priority of application...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 INQUIRIES ON EXTRA SESSION OF BUSINESS SCHOOL | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

...been forced to cancel their applications, because they lacked the necessary funds. A good many who have been in the School for one year and have had to withdraw and work for two or three years to earn enough to continue are now able to take advantage of this extra session with the lowered living costs resulting from its shortened period of time, it was stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 300 INQUIRIES ON EXTRA SESSION OF BUSINESS SCHOOL | 12/21/1932 | See Source »

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