Word: returned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact Oxford is a loose bundle of colleges, many comfortably rich by 18th-Century standards, but despite the old paintings and priceless silver only modestly well off for the 20th. Each college houses its own members and turns over to the University a substantial part of its income in return for instruction and administration. Since 1925 about a third of the cost of running Oxford has had to be met by Parliament. In 1935 Oxford University spent altogether some $1,290,000, roughly one-tenth of what was spent by Harvard. Oxford's income from its general endowment funds...
...celebrated Roosevelt-Farley air mail crackdown, was forced to split up. Bitterly attacked in Senate hearings after he displayed paper profits of $51,000,000 from an original investment of $487,119, Founder Bill Boeing was forced out of his job as chairman of United, did not return to the Boeing factory. At present he is a partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than 10% of the stock, chose shy Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, 44, who entered the plant...
...since Mickey Walker retired in 1931. Last summer, after holding the championship of the class for less than a year, Middleweight Babe Risko of Syracuse, N. Y. lost it to Middleweight Freddie Steele of Tacoma, Wash. Unconvinced that Steele was the better man, Risko challenged his conqueror to a return match. This time, to get the champion into the ring, he had to guarantee Steele a $25,000 purse which he hoped to get out of the receipts...
Three million Methodists were supposed to be gathered at Fellowship dinners under the auspices of 20,000 city and village churches. Perhaps 1,500,000 or more were. To them went the voices of Dr. Jones, about to return to his labors as a missionary in India, who urged his favorite idea: that all the sects form a Church of Christ, with each sect represented as a "Branch." Mr. Rockefeller, who would belong to the Baptist Branch but who has publicly announced he will give no more millions to sectarian enterprises (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), voiced his agreement with...
...wanted: when some highborn ladies snubbed her at a dinner party, Clontarf married her. The ill fate that brought him his death in the hunting field five months later banished Marie from his land. Gypsy lore indicated that in four generations, when "the blood was cleansed" she might return. Back in Ireland after fleeing from the Spanish Revolution, Marie's granddaughter Marie (Annabella, this time a blonde) tumbles off Wings of the Morning, her grand mother's Derby candidate, into the life of Kerry (Henry Fonda). When Kerry swaps Marie six nags for Wings of the Morning...