Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred undergraduates. But at the weekly discussion groups, the core of the plan, where physicists and philologists were to be inspired to search for the roots of American culture, attendance was very small: a nucleus of six to ten faithful students in each of the Houses. Nearly a fourth of these were concentrators in History and Literature of America, and none of them physical science concentrators...
Last week Augur published a book called Europe in the Fourth Dimension.- It is a rambling essay on democracy, British-French friendship, German aggression, which ends abruptly with a suggestion that only Poland bars Germany's path to the East. Typical Augur interpretation: Mussolini adopted anti-Semitism to make Italians racially conscious because he was horrified at the prospect of pickaninnies of Italian descent in Ethiopia...
...Biggest single group (one-third) got their first jobs by going out and hunting for them. One-fourth got jobs through experience gained in self-support during college, about one-fifth through college placement bureaus, one-tenth through family influence, 2% through fraternity contacts...
...information department, became vice president in charge of advertising and publicity. > Marvin W. Smith, manager of engineering of Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., became a vice president. > Richard ("Bobby") Weil Jr. became president of Newark's L. Bamberger & Co., whose $30,000,000 annual sales make it the fourth biggest U. S. department store. Slight, abrupt President Weil is a 31-year-old Yaleman, son of Minnie Straus, whose family owns both Bamberger's and Manhattan's big R. H. Macy & Co. Also announced last week: the retirement at 83 of Board Chairman Louis Bamberger...
...Stahlmen threatened in the second and third, but just could not produce when the chips were down. Gene Lovett finally scored a run from third base in the fourth after a foul fly catch carried first baseman Linden right into the crowd. The Indiana, with Broberg again providing the big punch, all but sewed up the game in the seventh with two more tallies...