Word: order
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over a year these two have been carrying on the most violent war in U. S. higher education. It started with President Hutchins' book, The Higher Learning in America. Mr. Hutchins proposed that U. S. universities try to restore order to a confused world by teaching people the truths uttered by the great philosophers of the past. Gideonse replied with The Higher Learning in a Democracy. What Mr. Hutchins proposed, said he, was "intellectual dictatorship." Lest anyone be misled by the Hutchins theories, Gideonse reported that in practice University of Chicago was being guided not by its president...
...order to tip the scales at the required 136 Ib. (welterweight minimum) for last week's fight, Armstrong, whose normal weight is 130, quaffed a mixture of ale and stout, wolfed a big breakfast before weighing in. When the fight was postponed from its original date because of rain, he was not required to scale 136 again...
...sovereignty of God over the State. 3) Watch lest the churches become too rich. 4) Develop the conference idea among religious citizens. 5) "Religious people, before all others, should be aware that the best guard against Nazi, Communist and Fascist propaganda is to produce an American social order better than these can promise...
...Cracked down on the great meat packing house of Swift & Co. Charging "unfair and unjustly discriminatory" methods in the sale and distribution of its products, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace issued a cease and desist order. Secretary Wallace's action followed a seven-year look-see into such complaints as that Swift made agreements with numerous concerns to buy meat only from it, that Swift deliberately misled customers about competitors' policies, that Swift manipulated prices in search of a meat monopoly...
Neither set manufacturer has sets available except to order, neither can guarantee purchasers any regular schedule of telecasts for their receivers, since the only telecasting being done in the New York area is the strictly experimental work...