Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hair, Sing Out the News has the look of a knockout revue. Yet that is chiefly a tribute to its direction. The satire is goofy but glib, the jokes are neat rather than new, the lyrics trip smartly but lack kick, the tunes are good to hear but hard to hum. Composer Rome offers nothing so bomb-bursting as his last season's Sing Me a Song with Social Significance, nothing so hilarious as his Chain Store Daisy. Only once could a first-night audience, half drawn from Who's Who and half from the Social Register, roar...
...previous series, Reporter Clifford Blackburn did most of the heavy work, bore down especially hard on WPA loafing and "incompetence." Last week the Tribune printed an editorial acknowledging "compliments" from letter-writers on its WPArticles, but nowhere in its columns appeared any reference to the week's biggest news about its series...
...loaned Reporter Blackburn. One of the Tribune's shovel-leaning pictures, said Mr. Hunter's statement, was taken at a private sewer job; another had been hastily cut down to a single column between editions when Tribune editors found it showed a number of men working hard in the background...
Born in New Zealand, he maintained to the end the earthy gruffness of an outlander. Sir Arthur Eddington says that Rutherford used to "pull my leg" because Sir Arthur was a mere theorist. Enormously respected and revered by the Cavendish workers, Rutherford was rated by them a hard taskmaster. When he went down to London for the Thursday meetings of the Royal Society, the pace of work at Cavendish noticeably slackened...
Work & Money. Hard work, however, is the general rule at Cavendish, although the staffers sometimes knock off early in summer to play cricket. The staff numbers some 60 researchers, of whom per-haps ten leave every year for other posts or retirement. These are replaced by bright newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur...