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Word: roome (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year to year. To preclude any variation of marking among the section men, the instructors do not grade merely the papers of the men in their own section, but grade a single question in each of the blue books. Hence coordination of marking is maximized, and there is no room for variation. Psychology A is a unified whole, no mass of isolated classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FITTING THE MOULD | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...position of the American Labor Party will be discussed by Benjamin Martin, writer and cartoonist, at a general meeting of the Harvard Student Union in Eliot House Common Room this evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Martin, Noted Writer, Will Speak Before HSU Tonight | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

...next year, after Eugene Ormandy had left the Minneapolis Symphony to go to Philadelphia, Maestro Mitropoulos got Ormandy's job. Minneapolitans soon found that their new Greek had a mind of his own. In a small dormitory room on the University of Minnesota campus with a studio couch, an upright piano and two trunks, he lived the life of a monk. When he did go out for an evening, it was not with Minneapolis' dowagers but with some fiddler or bassoonist from his own orchestra. A devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Minneapolis' Mitropoulos | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern Archaist | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...afternoon last week in the assembly room on the 23rd floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Western Union Telegraph Co., suave old Board Chairman Newcomb Carlton fingered a gavel, peered out anxiously at 200 faces, more of Western Union's 30,772 stockholders than he had ever seen at one time. Western Union's President Roy Barton White, stocky old-time railroad telegrapher, was reading a prepared statement explaining why Western Union had lost $1,637,000 in 1938. When perspiring President White lamely concluded that the report was the company's and not to be considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Disease of the Times | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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