Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late as midnight, no answer to the Lampoon's invitation had been received from Browder. Read explained that a telegram had been addressed to the C. P. Head care of the Kremlin, and that the delay might have been caused by the difference in time between New York and Moscow...
...marked the high-point for the number of full professorships in English, and this was caused by three promotions, all occurring at the same time. In that year, Professor Bush; Robert S. Hillyer '17, present Bolyston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; and Francis P. Magoun '16, Professor of Comparative Literature, were all advanced...
This Harvard experiment has for its precedent an interesting bit of research which was carried out in England. Drs. P. H. S. Hartely and G. F. Liewellyn investigated the records of the life span of the crews of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England for a 100-year period...
...hungry New Jersey has a propensity for pulling the teeth of gift horses (see p. 73). One victim was opulent Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey (assets: $2,044,635,000). Hit with a $300,000,000 assessment on its intangible property by Newark in 1935, the company got it reduced to $50,000,000, paid a $2,000,000 personal property tax, promptly moved its books and records to Linden. There town fathers slapped on a $75,000,000 "omitted assessment." Standard paid a $1,000,000 tax and began looking for still another home...
...political earth shook, a piece of the international sky fell on her tail feathers (see p. 23), but little Finland last week made no move to abandon her preparations for the 1940 Olympic Games, into which she has already sunk $10,000,000. Despite rumors that the Games might be transferred to Detroit, the proud Finns announced that they would not relinquish them until the last possible moment...