Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic City hotel room one day last fortnight. When they emerged, the Pioneer Transport Operators' Association had been formed, with membership limited to present holders of mail contracts. As in the case of the Association of Railway Executives, which is supposed to mould the policies of the rail industry, only the No. 1 man of each member company may represent it in the association.* Purpose of the organization was vaguely stated; something about "cooperation ... on matters pertaining to more efficient operation and service." But two obvious reasons for organizing offered themselves: 1) to prepare against threatened attacks upon airmail...
...home, struck by conviction of sin. Says Fort: "I share his conviction of sin. The thunderous words still follow me as other thunderous and like words follow countless Americans as we ride into the darkness of unknown years. There is no complete escape from the ancestral mould...
Having had but a few days of outdoor practice in which to mould into shape, the Harvard baseball nine will definitely put the lid on winter this afternoon when it takes the field against the Boston University team. The game, which is scheduled for 3 o'clock at Soldiers Field, is the opening tilt for both teams, and marks the eighth successive year in which the two nines have commenced their seasons together. Of the annual season opener contests since 1923 Harvard has won five. Boston University two, while one game was called off on account of poor weather...
...charge often levelled against the Princeton undergraduate by outsiders--namely, that he is cast into a certain inevitable mould by the time he has run the gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication...
Miracle at Verdun. What would happen if the 13,000,000 War dead should suddenly push back the mould from their faces, rise in their tatters from the grave? There would be 13,000,000 more mouths for the world to feed, 13,000,000 extra jobs to be found, 13,000,000 social readjust- ments to be made. Would the world which now mourns them welcome back the brave from their sleep? With such portentous questions as these is Miracle at Verdun, the Theatre Guild's latest opus, concerned. To produce its ambitious piece, the Guild has employed...