Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occupied with problems and duties at home, Harvard students are inclined to ignore a field of action in which the University takes quiet but profound pride. The latest reports of the Bowles expedition in Tibet, which bid fair to replace several missing tiles in the exotic and unfamiliar mosiac of that region, show once again that the triumphs of Harvard scholarship are far from being confined to Cambridge. If present hopes are realized, the discoveries made by Mr. Bowles and his party, although taking place in remotest Asia, will throw an essential light on the perplexing problem of the origin...
...doubling the size of the Conservation Corps. And Administrator Harry Hopkins took over $113,000,000 for April relief (of which Georgia was assigned none and Pennsylvania only a half share because both States failed to contribute on a scale that Mr. Hopkins thought was fair). That left the President with an embarrassment amounting to not quite...
Each morning Uncle Charles would ask how Lucille, a healthy, buxom girl of 18, was getting on at college. After breakfast Lucille would pick up her books, ride with him as far as the campus on the Midway where the World's Fair of 1893 was held. In the evening she would be back and next morning Uncle Charles would ask about her work again. Soon Lucille did not need to be asked. She talked at length of the things she learned. To Charles Rudolph Walgreen those things sounded dangerously like Communism...
...premature and regrettable use of the daily Press. Nor is it likely that his own publicity agents are unacquainted with the value of this inexpensive form of advertising. ... At the hands of our Huey Longs and Father Coughlins our inherited institutions are indeed in danger. It may be a fair question to ask whether the author of such a destructive public attack . . . has disclosed such a complete lack of any sense of social responsibility that by his own act he has classified himself among the dangerous men of our time." Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Arthur Holly Compton thought that...
...portrait of his mother holding a potted sansevieria. At her throat is the identical cameo which he put on his sister and used with such effect a year later in American Gothic. Iowans liked his work. He won the art contest for a sweepstakes prize at the Iowa State Fair, continued to win it year after year...