Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successfully Chicago's university has built up, not only as a great educational plant beneath the midwestern sky, but as a civic and social project far more present in the minds of Chicagoans than, for example, Columbia is in New Yorkers' minds or the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphians', was suggested by the list of people who accepted invitations to the Hutchins inaugural last week. It was a list much like the roster of first-nighters at the opening of Chicago's new Civic Opera House (TIME, Nov. 4, 18). Included were: President & Mrs. James Simpson of Marshall Field...
...these stupendities the present "biggest" planes already successfully flown are as hawks to eagles. They were designed by Claude Dornier,* Hugo Junkers, Adolph Rohrbach and Gianni Caproni respectively. (A German engineer, probably one of the three aforementioned, is the consultant on motive power for the U. S. ships.) Measurements of their "biggests...
Yale's President James Rowland Angell believes he has the sanest group of students in the world. That is because Yale was the first university to hire a staff psychiatrist. When a Yale man shows abnormality President Angell sends him to that psychiatrist, at present Dr. Clements Collard Fry. If Dr. Fry cannot straighten the student out, the boy is expelled. Only this month Yale dismissed two men, one a mental case, the other a sensual one. So President Angell boasted at the 20th anniversary dinner of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...
...Vanderbilt Cup. At a corner table the donor of the cup sat, ruddy, youthful, in a brown business suit. Expert Sidney S. Lenz was sick and could not play, but Wilbur C. Whitehead was there, smiling through pince-nez attached obscurely to his clothing by a neat black ribbon. Present were Ely Cuthbertson and his wife, Josephine, famed as the most dangerous married couple in bridge. All felt that the occasion was significant for something beside the trophy at stake. It was a contest between two basic theories of contract bridge. In recent months the "Vanderbilt convention" (TIME, Sept...
...precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed the peak in risque outspokenness had been attained. But now the landscape is plastered, advertising sections of magazines and newspapers are fat, with advertisements...