Word: headedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shop when he was 13, borrowed $150,000 when he was 25 to buy into the embryo of his present business. He still talks of himself as a worker. Every morning when he is at home (he winters in Florida) he crams a golf cap on his balding grey head, drives himself to an E. J. factory, paces briskly down the aisles with a sharp eye out for wasters. He works from 8 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. (his employes work from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m.) and he is invariably abed...
...gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that PWAdministrator Harold Ickes was the only judge of the fairness of the utilities' offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price or we duplicate.' . . . This is one of the most cruel, brutal, and unAmerican doctrines ever adopted...
Thus encouraged to be nifty, display men have taxed their wits to captivate the eye-and the other senses-of a hypothetical pedestrian passing with his head down and his own worries in an interval of about ten seconds. On Fifth Avenue this has led to glamor plus novelty. Most noticeable evidence: a change in manikins from a shiny waxwork sisterhood with open-eyed little smiles to papier-máché, wire mesh or carven effigies of the dangling, mask-faced glamor girl...
...Scientific Allies of Medicine" will be the subject of President Conant's speech. Dr. Arlie V. Bock head of the Hygiene Department and Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, will talk on "Your Health and Mine"; Cecil K. Drinker, professor of Physiology and Dean of the School of Public Health, has chosen as his subject "Death on Monday Morning, or Man-Made Disease," and Hans Zinsser, Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, will discuss "Laboratories and Epidemics." After these talks the subject will be thrown open to debate and questions will be invited from the floor, with President Conant...
Kent Bartlett and his orchestra will provide the music for the Kirkland House Christmas Dance on December 9. Dancing will be from 8 until 12 o'clock. Thomas F. Gladwin '39 is chairman of the Dance Committee and Elliott H. Phillips '40 will be head usher. The other ushers are: Joseph Frank '39, John '40, Neil Rawlinson 3G, and Francis M. Simpson...