Word: lates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undue alarm. However, the simple facts, when divorced from their monetary terminology, reveal that Harvard, despite this book loss, is actually as financially solid as it has been in the past. In brief, some millions of dollars were added to the book valuation of the University shortly after the late-lamented boom. Its investments were apparently worth more, so Harvard decided to value them at an increased figure on its books. Now changing business conditions, and perhaps the accounting policies of a new Treasurer, have showed it advisable to return to the more conservative valuations of the pre-1930 period...
Coach Mikkola went on to stress the opportunities open to Freshmen making good this season: "First-year men on the squad as well as the Varsities are eligible for the Harvard-Yale competitions late in the spring of '39. This dual meet determines trackmen who will go to England this summer to meet winners of an Oxford-Cambridge elimination. For the trip abroad, two men for each event will be chosen...
...were asked to name a Spanish dancer, he would probably call to mind the late sultry, supple-waisted La Argentina. To dance fans in Spain La Argentina was distinctly hot stuff, but the place of Spain's No. i dancer has long been held by a heftier, black-haired woman with a somewhat similar name: Argentinita...
...long tempted certain rapacious New Deal reformers. But with the U. S. still clinging to Freedom of the Press, nothing had been done about advertising (with the exception of liquor) until last week when Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold produced a scheme which, snorted Columnist David Lawrence, "makes the late Huey Long, who tried to put a tax on publications of large circulation, look like an amateur." Trust Buster Arnold's scheme was deftly dovetailed into the long-expected announcement by the Department of Justice that its anti-trust suits against Chrysler Corp...
...Manhattan the 88th birthday of the late Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was celebrated by proxy by Mrs. Annie Ide Cockran, who has had full and undisputed right to Stevenson's birthday (November 13) for 47 years. Reason: in 1891 her father, General Henry Clay Ide, U. S. Land Commissioner in Samoa, told his great & good friend Stevenson that his small daughter Annie always felt aggrieved because her birthday fell on December 25. Straightway Author Stevenson drew up, signed, had witnessed a document transferring to her all the rights & privileges...