Word: fored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Well, what became of the old full din ner pail? . . . Bank failures blazed in the headlines of every newspaper across the country, bankruptcy proceedings,, fore closures on mortgages, depreciation in the value of prime securities, paralysis of busi ness & industry and. topping it all, 7,000,000 men out of work. . . . The Administration plans for the relief of unemploy ment are indefensible. . . . Why, they passed the question along to the States. localities and private charities [which] cannot cope with the situation. . . . Now, what is the record of these two forms of relief? First is relief in the home; second...
President Lowell's excellent report on the condition's in graduate schools again brings to the fore a moot point: is it the purpose of the scholar or scientist (for I make small distinction between them) to be eminent in his field; or (eminence being for him a side issue and of no significance) does he rather seek after beauty and truth for the sake only of beauty and truth? If the former, then surely "the glory of a university is the enticement and production of scholars destined to be eminent in their fields." If the latter, will...
...feel that the error is so serious, however, that it warrants a public retraction and there fore sincerely trust that you will publish an emphatic retraction in your first issue that goes to press following the receipt of this letter...
...from knowing a thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack & the Beanstalk, a "fairy opera for the childlike" with libretto by John Erskine (The Private Life of Helen of Troy), music by Louis Gruenberg. Opera and cow were presented...
...increase in the value of the University's endowment funds was fore- shadowed by President Lowell's announcement at the Alumni Exercises last June of gifts totalling $14,421,697. These included contributions from Edward S. Harkness of $4,310,239 "additional, toward the construction of the Houses," and of $100,000 "for the libraries of the Houses...