Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could pull American Woolen out of the red before writing him up as a business hero worthy of the laurels of the Press. At the end of the second year the company's deficit was $7,269,000-the worst on record. Mr. Warner certainly did not look heroic to his stockholders. But last week, at the end of the third year, American Woolen announced its earnings for 1933. For the first time in six years it had made money-$7,053,000. And for the first time in seven years it declared a dividend ($1.25) on the preferred...
Among the lost arts is that of writing verse in "heroic couplets." Though the 18th Century thought it the only wear for poets, it has since dropped completely out of fashion, is now never used as a serious poetic form. For the English, especially, it still has a half-humorous academic charm. Author Laver, onetime winner of Oxford's Newdigate Poetry Prize, comports himself with fair grace in these borrowed 18th Century garments but never rises to the level of Pope's elegance or acid...
...faculty today contains too many men who are neither great teachers nor great scholars. The figures whose names once made the University Catalogue read like the roster of a national academy of learning, are fading rapidly into the past, and their successors do not fall gracefully into the heroic molds. The Department of Philosophy is but the most notorious example of a department whose glories lie chiefly in the past. The causes of Harvard's failure to attract many of the best men are not easy to diagnose, but whatever they may be, the undergraduates will wish Mr. Conant success...
Fresh from China by way of the U. S. Navy Medical Corps this month came a vivid surgeon's-eye view of heroic Chinese resistance to the Japanese onslaught which swept down from Manchukuo, entered "China proper" through the Great Wall and stopped just short of Peiping (TIME, May 29, et ante}. Excerpts from the report* of Lieut.-Commander Morton D. Willcutts, M. D., the U. S. Navy's observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded...
...return of the nefarious liquor traffic: but Mrs. Boole and her cohorts are alive to this sinister menace, nor are they daunted by the fact that it has already made such inroads into the morality of the nation. Immediate conditions are, however, pretty appalling and certainly call for heroic measures. A friend of Mrs. Boole's is in fact, ready to testify to the horrendous effect of liquor; it seems that she went to a cocktail party for sixty people at which fifty-eight became "silly drunk"; the only exceptions were Mrs. Boole's friend and her husband, who were...