Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since President Roosevelt appointed him a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission, George Henry Payne has preached that radio broadcasters have an eye only to profits, neglect "education and culture." Something else Commissioner Payne dislikes is radio lobbyists. He says he can't leave his office without stumbling over three or four of them...
...Zoologist Herbert Spencer Jennings is another Johns Hopkins notable who is retiring this year because of age. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who achieved his greatest newspaper fame as the eye surgeon of Siam's ex-King Pradhjadipok, retired unwillingly in 1934, died a few-months after...
...rough edges for the final four-mile grind against Yale. When it annexed the mythical sprint championship of the East after beating Navy, no other crew in Harvard's racing history had realized its potentialities as well as Captain Spike Chace's Varsity eight under the patient and critical eye of Coach Tom Bolles...
...appointed to a full professorship; three times President Hutchins ignored the recommendation. Last week Harry Gideonse quit the University of Chicago, accepted a,full professorship at Columbia. Said he: "There has been no personal quarrel between President Hutchins and me. . . . Dr. Hutchins and I have simply not seen eye to eye on educational policy. ... I expect to find a more congenial atmosphere at Columbia." The shocked Chicago faculty promptly adopted a resolution of "deep regret." President Hutchins, who never has mentioned his chief opponent in public, permitted himself no word of regret, no gloat...
Excuse: "You would do well to have New York City printed under your street address. When writing to you last November, my eye was caught by the word Pennsylvania and I addressed the envelope to that town. Needless to say, it was returned here marked 'unknown...