Word: firms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...records of past years, the meet will probably be, in the jargon of the trade, a "push over". The score of last year's encounter, though at the time there were ominous murmurs of "gyp" and "we wuz robbed" arising from the Lampoon contingent, was carefully checked by a firm of Boston accountants and found to be 23-2 in favor of the official undergraduate organ. Dr. Worcester's office later issued an unofficial statement attributing the victory to clean living and a paucity of undergraduate "gags...
...with a firm step and clear eye that the Crimson team goes forth against the wiles of the LaFargement. Let the best man win. Victory will be celebrated in the Crimson Sanctum shortly after the match...
...years in Luftschiffbau-Zeppelin's hangar on the shores of Lake Constance, the Hindenburg was originally designed by famed Dr. Hugo Eckener for the well-blazed airship trail between Germany and Brazil. Last year, however, Akron's Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp., which is closely linked to the German firm, persuaded Dr. Eckener that it would be a smart thing to beat all other nations in the race to establish a North Atlantic airline. Simultaneously, the U. S. Navy offered the use of its great airdock at Lakehurst, idle since the Akron and Macon disasters. To permit the vast Hindenburg...
...Manhattan, William S. Hart, screen star of 150 silent "Westerns," won a five-year-old damage suit against United Artists, the firm which in 1925 signed six-year contract with Hart to make talking pictures. A jury awarded him $85,000, found that United Artists had made only one Hart film, distributed it to second-rate houses, conspired to keep him from making more. Said Cinemactor Hart, who had asked for $500,000: "What those picture people did to me took the best years of my life, but thank God I have won moral victory...
...returned to Yale to lecture his alma mater on what ought to be done about U. S. higher education. In four addresses given under the Storrs Lectures foundation he declared that the nation's universities are not "coherent." They must be "strong enough and clear enough to stand firm and show our people what the higher learning is." Faculty members more interested in research than in teaching, he said, should be shunted off to special "research institutes," set free to explore "fundamental problems in metaphysics, social science, and natural science." President Hutchins also thought that universities in search...