Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even the magic word "Veritas", which adorns probably the only two official sundials in the University does not seem to suffice to keep them in the straight and narrow...
...Matisse pictures, but his walls were getting so crowded that he insisted they must be painted to certain specified sizes. Three years later Teaman Stchoukine was still convinced that Henri Matisse was a fine painter, gave him carte blanche to decorate the grand staircase of his palace. In his narrow knickerbockers and high laced shoes, Artist Matisse frequented at that time the Moulin Rouge and the Moulin de la Galette, contemplating the dancing cocottes that lame Toulouse-Lautrec had painted so shrewdly a few years earlier. Artist Matisse felt that the farandole, a sort of strumpets' ring-around...
...which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California's anthropology department, pronounced it that of a 70-year-old woman with a long, narrow head. Dr. Bowden stated that the skull could not possibly be an "intrusion" since it was under a 13-ft. deposit of clay, referred it definitely to glacial times, put its age tentatively at 30,000 years. "The Ballona Woman," he wrote, "gives a more conclusive proof than...
...training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges, that the university can supply only the former. There is no substitute for experience; every business has its own idiosyncrasies, its own methods its own peculiarities. Universities today bow to every whim of corporations giving narrow, technical courses that really should be items of expense on the corporation balance sheets...
...applicant wants to work for and where no overture has been made by the employer still constitutes the foundation of all employment. Here is employment denuded of all personal ties and placed on a purely business basis. The applicant determines the market for his services within a fairly narrow scope and sells to that market by sustained and systematic effort until he gets his job. This channel of approach should form the back log of any Senior's campaign to establish himself in the business world...