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In factory parlance the ugly word for it is absenteeism. In many a factory, girls now take time off for shopping, for tea, for almost anything that seems important to a woman at the moment-though women with close relatives in the services are apt to be among the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Absent Without Leave | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

First job undertaken was the painting of the walls. This the University did but the students bought cream-colored cloth with which to cover the blackboards, remnants of the old class-room days. Dean Sperry, heartily agreeing with their plans, presented them with the old altar from Appleton Chapel, since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIVINITY STUDENTS CONVERT EMPTY CLASSROOM TO CHAPEL | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

To some 6,000,000 newspaper readers this week goes the syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week in a new format. Cut down to Collier's-size, its new make-up eliminates "jumps," or run-overs to back pages. Its editorial ingredients are 52% articles, 48% fiction, as against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Different This Week | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Seven department and two divisional chairmanships have changed hands as College opens this fall, in one of the largest administrative turn-overs in recent years. Also to become effective this year is the discontinuance of two divisions.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Changes Made in Chairmanship of Seven Departments, Two Divisions | 9/27/1939 | See Source »

One of the least desirable jobs in Russia is that of the People's Commissar for Agriculture. Among his many nightmares: Supposing ignorant peasants in Siberia leave their shiny new tractors out in the snow? Supposing collective farmers begin to act like rugged individualists in the Ukraine? In these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Problematical Poods | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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