Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Raymond explained that in the days when skiing was new in this region, waxing was a science which only experts could understand. The "universal waxes" sold to the average skier in those days were far from satisfactory...
...good American college has abandoned the 'take-it-or-leave-it' policy of the last century, and it believes in a wise sympathetic selection of those who will profit by its offerings," Mr. Gummere said in summarizing the attitude taken by most colleges on the admissions problem...
...Committee, headed by Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum, D., Va., and heavily Democratic, fixed the projected appropriation at $725,000,000, specified that it must be apportioned over the full five months ahead, and moved to void Mr. Roosevelt's recent order blanketing 33,000 in Works Progress Administration personnel under civil service by directing that none of the new appropriation be used to pay salaries of those so blanketed...
...Harvard Museum has sent expeditions in the past year to Burma and Java, Australia, Solomon Islands, Greece, Peru, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and preparations have been completed for an expedition to the Nei East, Mr. Scott reported...
Adding a new catch-word to his growing collection, Mr. Lippmann fixed on the President's references to religion as being the casiest to distort. With a skill derived from experience, he took Mr. Roosevelt's concept of devout, pious, moral religion and deliberately confused it with the medieval dogma of temporal churches. And out of this tortured thinking he drew a religion of his own making, "mysticism" as practised by the Oxford Group, passive, ennervating, a religion that would do away with such Marxian innovations as strikes, wage increase demands and the class struggle in general. Labelling this...