Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University Theatre, which causes this department a good many sleepless nights, has gone erratic again. Every year, it seems, they circulate questionnaires listing seventy-five great films and find out what Greater Harvard Square thinks of them. They got back 600 ballots this year, and are consequently holding three review days in a row, although they rather suspect some people voted twice...
...James Page of the University of Rochester, investigating the worries of male & female university freshmen, found that girls worried mainly over whether they were popular, that boys were afraid of being underweight, of not taking sufficient interest in their work, of not being able to meet their responsibilities or find financial security after graduation, of having to support their parents in old age. Two percent of the boys and 4% of the girls feared going insane. Three percent of the boys, none of the girls feared they were adopted children. About 10% in each sex were afraid of death...
...deep breath and recounted: "The loan was made because I told him I had been using customers' securities improperly. He was aghast at the fact and terribly disturbed. He said he would see if he could arrange to lend me the money I needed and told me to find out what was necessary to clear up the situation. I did so and the next day the money was loaned...
...Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson and a score of lesser authors made their reputations by dramatizing the deadly influence of Main Street's narrow, inhibited middle-class culture. What has been happening on Main Street in the last hardbreathing decade of boom and depression? The single serious attempt to find out has been Robert & Helen Lynd's brilliant sociological study, Middle town in Transition (TIME, April 19). On the surface, reported the Lynds, the cultural pattern of Main Street in 1935 appeared to be intact. But the pattern showed significant new bulges...
Joseph Lee, Jr., only member of the School Committee opposed to backing Timility, thought it a shame to suppress "anything that might allow people to think and to keep their minds off such froth and foolishness as you find on every newstand." He added that the city officials behind the censorship of printed matter are "conservative and too apt to make a flight from life...