Word: number
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME investigated the possibility of a cartoon page, thumbed down the idea for the present because there do not seem to be enough good cartoons for a weekly collection. Only a dozen U. S. cartoonists and about the same number abroad, are doing professionally acceptable work. Also 90% of U. S. cartoons are monotonously one-sided (anti-New Deal). But TIME, stimulated by its researches, will print more cartoons whenever they are pertinent as illustration, amplification or horrible example...
...tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
What they study is far from clear, but the Royal Fraternity's creed might be described as a theological goulash of Rosicrucianism, Christian Science, Christianity, Supermind Science, faith healing and How to Win Friends and Influence People. As to the number of middle-aged ladies he has attracted, "the Christian Science Church doesn't publish the number of its membership," says Mr. Schafer; "Why should we?" However: "Our organization is unorganized. You can't define a thing like that...
...grown since 1933 from a side show of Chicago's Century of Progress to Baseball's No. 2 event of the year. Cincinnatians from beer-garden waiters to socialites were excited over the game. For among the picked National League players were five Cincinnati Reds, an unprecedented number for the league's perennial tail-enders and a larger representation than that of any other club. Even more unprecedented was the fact that two of them were rookies, and one, 22-year-old Johnny Vander Meer, who had skyrocketed to fame a few weeks earlier when...
...looking Dr. Edwin Griswold Nourse (rhymes with "course") and the latest book is published over his name and that of Horace B. Drury. Brother of Novelist Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China), Economist Nourse went to Brookings with Dr. Moulton in 1922 after teaching in a number of colleges. His latest work gives a readable history of general prices, lists numerous reasons why price policies have erred, also lists numerous examples of progress in corporate pricing, concludes with a balanced judgment which reads almost like a Republican benediction...