Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their financial interests in Welsh coal mines, which now pay about $545,000 a year and for which the Government will give $10,000,000 when they are nationalized. To handle the coal, the Crichton-Stuarts built most of Cardiff's enormous docks. But even more lucrative of late have been the family's vast Cardiff real-estate holdings, from which $750,000 yearly in long-term leases was gleaned. Docks and real estate were both included in the sale-20,000 houses, the Cardiff Shipping Exchange, 1,000 stores, 250 pubs, cinema houses, wide suburban areas. Also...
...nephew Hipolito Cedillo and eleven more agrarians, observers agreed that Boss Cedillo may have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help him put over a national Rightist revolt. Late last week his wife, his four daughters and his brother-in-law motored to the U. S., temporarily settled in Texas...
...While the music of Jewish Atonalist Arnold Schönberg was immediately blacklisted, compositions by "Aryan" Atonalist Paul Hindemith have occasionally been heard, those of "Aryan" Atonalist Alban Berg were heard as late as 1934. Russian Modernist Igor Stravinsky is still a popular composer in the Third Reich...
...late John William Navin Sullivan was an able mathematician, a gifted and lucid interpreter of physics, a lover of music, a searcher for beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...
Government 12b and 12a, two half courses on Party Government coming in that order, were recommended, especially the latter, which will be omitted during 1938-39. The reading was praised, but the reading list did not come out until too late and assignments often disagreed with it. Of courses 13 and 19 on Constitutional Government and Law in the United States, the former Professor Wright's was the more satisfactory, requiring more time, as well. "Legal quibbling" was the description of course 19, but it was recognized that this was virtually a Law School course...