Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picturized school reports still have one grave defect. They have not been able to find text to match their illustrations. Their words are still the bumbling literary efforts of pedagogs, usually dull, often pompous. Sample from the Los Angeles report...
...market's fall is due primarily to such "technical reasons" as lack of liquidity brought on by too much Government regulation. Regarded, therefore, as something of a seer is the Stock Exchange's President Charles R. Gay, who sounded off against Government regulation in his annual report just as the break in prices was beginning (TIME, Aug. 30). From Washington last week the seer got his long expected and long delayed official spanking...
Illness and impaired vision have compelled Rudolph Blaschka, 80 year old glass-worker of Hosterwitz, Germany and creator of the whole of Harvard's collection of glass flowers, to cease active work. This means that the collection has probably reached its final form, the annual report of Oakes Ames '98, Director of the Botanical Museum, disclosed Saturday...
Professor Ames reported that "a prolonged illness, and impaired vision brought about by the exacting nature of his art, have compelled Mr. Blaschka to cease work indefinitely. Indeed it is doubtful that he will add materially to the collection to which he has devoted the major part of a long life. It is gratifying to report that Mr. Blaschka may look forward to a comfortable retirement through the generous terms of Miss Mary Lee Ware's bequest to the Botanic Museum...
...Final Report...