Word: program
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merchant marine from nothing to 112,600 tons; built the port of Gdynia on the Baltic from a town of 400 in 1923 to one of 150,000 in 1939; purchased 6,000,000 acres from large landowners to create 700,000 new farms in a broad and progressive program of land distribution...
...Nazi Germany it is verboten to listen to foreign broadcasts. Last week the British were planning a program that they hoped Germans would listen to in spite of prohibitions: Names of Nazi prisoners and dead and wounded identified by the Allies will be rushed to London from the front, broadcast to Germany on BBC's daily medium-wave news periods in German...
...tentative tuning-up brought hisses from his fellows. Crackled perfect Wagnerite George Bernard Shaw (in a telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good...
...Fall Dormitory Athletic program, intended for the men living in College dormitories outside the Houses or in rooming houses in Cambridge, and consisting of football, golf, tennis, and touch football was announced last night by Adolph W. Samborski '25, Director of Intramural Athletics...
...first step in the Committee's educational program, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, has prepared a "man-in-the-street" analysis of the neutrality bill now before Congress...