Word: firming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order to have your portrait painted by de Laszlo it is advisable to have a firm and masterful face if you are a man, an expression of graciously patrician elegance if you are a woman. This will make it simpler for Painter de Laszlo to inject these qualities into his portraiture, but they are by no means the only requirements for being a de Laszlo subject. You will also need $14,000 if you want a really first-rate product, full length, executed with all the Sargentesque splendor at his command. For $10,000 you can have a neat three...
...judges were L. V. Caldwell, prominent Boston landscape architect; Robert Coe '25, of the Olmstead firm in Brookline; H. V. Hubbard '97, Chairman and Professor of the School of City Planning; and B. W. Pond, Professor and Chairman of the School of Landscape Architecture. Following a brief statement by Professor Bond, the judges made a cursory inspection of the plans...
Admitting that a man trained in student organizations may be more valuable to any business firm, school, or newspaper on his graduation day than is the purely academically trained man, it is quite possible that a greater fund of knowledge and more thorough habits of thought may make the latter superior ten years later. To the man of ability, inexperience in "doing things" will be no permanent handicap...
...believe in using the telephone long & often. The company's bill sometimes runs between $15,000 and $20.000 a month. Mr. Cord's right-hand man is tall, blond Lucius B. Manning, 37, Yale graduate (1913) and onetime football player, a grain broker until he organized his own investment firm in 1926 and got acquainted with Errett Cord. Now he is vice president of Cord Corp., president of Auburn Aircraft & Airliner Corp...
...called "The Harvard Studies in Business History," which will be issued by the Harvard University Press. Says Editor Norman Scott Brien Gras, professor at Harvard's School of Business Administration: "Sometimes the theme of the studies will be individual business men, sometimes it will be an individual business firm. But the emphasis will logically be upon the policy and management of private enterprise...