Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music of the songs is the work of Ben Welles, Stanley Miller, '38, and Alan Lerner, '39. The latter two also had a hand in writing the words for them, and were assisted by David Lannon '39. The words do not scintillate, nor will the tunes be indefinitely revived, but at least "Came the Dawn" and "Rainbow in the Sky" are quite agreeable numbers...
...student enough wall space to hang his knowledge, yet in eight years of experimentation examiners have found that in practice they become merely repititious tests of course material. This ill situation may be cured in one of two ways, either by abolishing correlation exams or by improving them. The latter, because of Harvard's ideal of a broad education, is much the better medicine...
Still under "protective arrest" were former Chancellor Schuschnigg and former President Wilhelm Miklas, the latter permitted to go out only to church, escorted by Storm Troopers...
...there are 46,000 registered automobile dealers in the U. S. and an indeterminate number of independents with lots full of jalopies, statistics of their trade are never very precise. Estimates of the used car glut on March 5 ranged from 700,000 to 1,000,000, with the latter figure probably the more accurate (normal: 500,000). Last week, as reports of the drive poured into Detroit, Automotive Daily News estimated that 175,000 used cars had been sold. This reduced dealers' inventories by 60,000 cars, gave them an aggregate $50,000,000 in business. Other figures...
...those who take the contemporary U. S. hard is young Manhattan Poet Muriel Rukeyser. Living in the nation's richest city, she is pinched by a sense of waste: a waste of spirit matching a material waste. To remedy the latter she counts on radical reform, if not revolution; to remedy the former she counts on mental and emotional continence. To help remedy both at once she writes poems that are at once radical and continent...