Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business School usually stipulates that men should secure work during the summer, but in the present depression it was felt that students who are unable to find work would profit as much by such tours, and so is endeavoring to encourage their organization...
Rochester paid so willingly to hear pretty French Lily Pons sing in Lucia di Lammermoor fortnight ago that for the first time in eight years the Metropolitan Opera's visit showed a profit. Last week musical Rochester went three times to the big theatre named for the late George Eastman who gave it, and once to small, chaste Kilbourn Hall which Mr. Eastman built in memory of his mother. But no reckoning had to be done in either boxoffice. These concerts were the second annual Festival of American Music, given free by the Eastman School of Music. Under...
Formation of the International Film Foundation-non-profit-making producer and distributor of educational films-was announced last fortnight in Manhattan. President of I. F. F. is President Wallace Walter Atwood of Clark University. Purpose of I. F. F. is to centralize production and distribution of educational films. It will manufacture three types: classroom films, noncurriculum films for auditorium use, a few special films, like The Cry of the World, for general distribution. Most of the personnel of I. F. F., including President Atwood, were previously connected with the visual education department of Fox which, after spending...
...bring most upperclassmen into contact with members of the faculty with whom they may become acquainted. Yet "staff tables," in the dining halls, the reticence which afflicts some students, and lack of opportunity prevent many undergraduates from knowing those men by whose advice and help they would most profit...
...Dirks left his home in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, and shipped himself, wife and nine children to the New World where he settled down in Chicago's West Side lumber yard and railroad district. One son, Rudolph, soon picked up broken English, discarded newspapers which he sold for 1? profit, and a knack of drawing. In time he | drifted to New York, originated in 1897 a color page of comics called "The Katzenjammer Kids," became one of the world's most beloved cartoonists...