Word: scored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into eight conference rooms at Littauer Center on one of the first days of spring crowded some ten score students. Pads and pencil, which armed every pretty maiden and a few others, who were not so pretty as their painted political ideas, dispelled all conservative fears that a contest of postoffice or "goldfish gobbling" was about to begin. For almost six hours, Littauer was converted into a gigantic safety valve for youth and all its fears and ideas. Smoke-filled rooms, hushed giggles, and overflowing ash trays gave signs through the night that the conference was still there...
When C. I. O.'s Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman and two score sub-lieutenants went to Cleveland last fortnight to minister to the feud-fuddled United Automobile Workers of America, they hoped to apply not a cure but a poultice. To that end they had the delegates elect conservative, cooperative Roland Jay Thomas to the presidency and abolish the jobs of four quarrelsome vice presidents (TIME, April 10). Last week, to the dismay of Physicians Murray & Hillman, the delegates in winding up their convention wound the poultice into a knot...
Should affairs come to that pass, the interest of Mrs. Roosevelt's people in Queen Elizabeth's people would be critical if not decisive in world history. Mrs. Roosevelt, just back from a transcontinental lecture tour punctuated by stops in a score of States and the birth of a new grandson ("Little John" Boettiger) in Seattle, had seen and been seen by people all the way from peon pecan-shellers to her son Jimmy's boss, Samuel Goldwyn. On this trip, she said, she had encountered less Isolationist sentiment than ever before. Said she: "There are still...
Boston University has alleviated a big professorial headache recently with a machine which can score more objective tests in four hours than four exam correctors could evaluate in almost four months...
With the surprising Quad meet victory behind them, this year's Varsity is an exceptionally well-balanced aggregation and should be a powerful dual meet team. Whether there are enough standouts to enable Harvard to score heavily in the Heptagonal and I.C.4A meets which follow the Yale meet is more doubtful...