Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tolerance of an attitude of indifference to the physical preparations for such athletic contests would be an unpardonable shirking of the duty a college has towards its young men. It would be gross negligence on the part of the Director of Athletics and the Committee entrusted by the Harvard Corporation with the regulation and conduct of athletic sports. Should the time come when a majority of Harvard undergraduates wish to abandon training as wisely determined by years of experience and supplant instead a policy of non-training, the time for with drawal of the college from all intercollegiate sports will...
...playhouse abandoned repertory, closed its doors. Uptown to Florenz Ziegfeld's old New Amsterdam Theatre went the Repertory's Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass. Explanation for this change in policy brought forth a hitherto unknown fact about the organization: even a capacity week ($9,500 gross) could not pay the Repertory's bills. For years a number of public-spirited citizens have been making up the $8,000 monthly deficit, because Producer Le Gallienne would rather close up shop than raise her $1.50 top price. Now, one by one, the Depression has picked...
...confession: "To destroy the present for the sake of the future is not the right means to promote idealization of national life. I realize my past conduct was a result of emotions which were not based on realities. My error was gross. What I took to be benevolence was merely emotional indignation. I now await Heaven's sentence...
...Governor Herring appealed by proclamation for a halt on foreclosures until the General Assembly could act. ¶ Distressed agrarians, members of the Root Hog or Die Club, marched to St. Paul, Minn., demanded land tax reductions from Governor Olson. Their story: "We were promised years ago that the gross earnings tax would cut the levy; that the gas tax would cut the levy; that the auto tax would cut the levy. . . . These taxes have never cut the levy. We protest this terrible cost of State government. To give just a mill or two less ... is but trifling with the problem...
Died. Ernst von Borsig, 63, famed German locomotive & machinery tycoon, senior head of once potent A. Borsig. Ltd., biggest member of the Borsig group (second biggest German one-family business*), bankrupted last year and forced to accept government aid; of heart disease; on his country estate Gross Syphen Behnitz, Brandenburg...