Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although a statement that Harvard gives fourteen different courses in elementary mathematics--all called "Math A"--would be gross exaggeration, nevertheless present lack of uniformity among the sections gives just that impression. Resolving not to permit the slightest hint of regimentation to cast its ominous shadow over their fair course, the men in charge of "Math A" have allowed the fourteen sections to become, in practice, almost wholly independent of one another. Not only teaching methods, but organization of material, examinations, and grading standards vary from section to section, and as a result men undertaking "Math A" can never...
TIME, Oct. 25, reporting the repercussions in New York City politics caused by the MARCH OF TIME'S filming of Fusion Mayor LaGuardia, says that Tammany Hall controls Radio City's Music Hall. This is such a gross canard that I do not see how TIME ever dared to foist it on the public...
...what they now spend for music, will be obliged under the N. A. B. plan to find the extra $1,500,000 for Joe Weber's men by chipping in, in proportion to their financial resources. Each must earmark for music next year the equivalent of 5.49% of gross income during the year which ended last August 31. How the additional musicians are to be allocated among the stations remains to be determined by the N. A. B. To help the poorest broadcasters pay their new quotas, National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System will...
...Spanish onions, which are the choicest of all, in 1921 was only 500 carloads. This year it is about 12,000. Total U. S. onion production last year was 70,000 carloads, of which Dingfelder & Balish handled more than any other firm. Also interested in potatoes, they had gross sales of $5,000,000. Last month after some disagreements Onion King Balish bought out his partner. Last week the new firm of Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. was squared off to dominate this year's smallish crop of 50,000 carloads, harvested from crops in most States. Mr. Dingfelder returned...
...time of his death it was published widely that the late Senator Guglielmo Marconi left a fortune of about $25,000,000. As a close friend of Marconi for many years, I saw the members of his family while in Europe. They told me that the gross value of the estate left by the Senator will not exceed...