Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary children predicted that he would be a flash in the pan. When Norbert was 18, he emerged from Harvard with a Ph.D. and an academic halo which grew brighter as he studied at Göttingen, Cambridge, Columbia. Today Norbert Wiener, at the age of 43, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks as one of the topflight mathematicians in the U. S. A familiar figure on the Tech campus, with his up-tilted head and rolling gait, Professor Wiener is as famous for his ebullience and absentmindedness...
...Youngest member of the young industry is the Mutual Broadcasting System. Network radio had had several unsuccessful efforts to build a fourth national chain to compete with NBC's Red and Blue, CBS, when in 1934 an advertiser who wanted to reach New York and Chicago listeners, but did not want to pay the cost of network broadcasting, approached stations WOR (Newark) and WGN (Chicago) to make a deal. The sponsor wanted to put on a show to be aired over the two stations. The show originated in Newark and he proposed to pay each station its standard time...
...sells a goodly slice of these 1,600 hours, but has by no means all for sale. Deductions must be made for: 1) Time differences across the continent. 2) Time given to sustaining programs like the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's Sunday afternoon concerts. 3) Time which member stations have sold locally and withdrawn from network participation...
Similarly cautious optimism was the most that other indicators offered last week. The war scare depressed stock prices but not severely, and volume of selling was light. Demand deposits in Federal Reserve Member banks were near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year...
...basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf-Sycamore menage pass their time playing the xylophone, experimenting with false faces and training pet birds. Thus when Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), the only member of the family normal enough to work for a living, falls in love with her boss (James Stewart), scion of the fabulously rich and conventional Anthony P. Kirbys, it occasions not only a meeting between the two clans but a Homeric clash of creeds...