Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took root in the U. S. and Canada long before Founder Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
...political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally rated the ablest U. S. State university president, he has helped make North Carolina tops in the South. He fought in the trenches during the World...
...years one unhandy thing about this Caesarean seemed to be the place where it occurred. Far more conveniently situated to serve mid-continent railroad customers are the inland industrial centres which sprang up in the following decades. But last week, Baldwin's 11,000 stockholders had reason to feel lucky that Matthias Baldwin set up shop on tidewater hard-by naval shipyards. They were shown their luck when Baldwin reported its unfilled orders...
...railroads after the 1929 crash it has been all famine. After four years of famine, Baldwin was so short of working capital that in 1935 it went into reorganization. But last week it had more than $30,000,000 worth of orders on the books, and things looked far rosier-but not for locomotives...
...filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...