Word: springed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn crop was one of the heaviest in recent U. S. history; the tobacco crop broke records; the wheat crop, already in (with spring wheat covering the fields of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana, with a yellowish-brown six-inch stubble) was estimated at 736,115,000 bushels...
...first cracks in the Rome-Berlin Axis have begun to appear. The belief is prevalent in Italy today that Italy no longer considers herself bound to honor the iron-clad military alliance Foreign Ministers Count Galeazzo Ciano and Joachim von Ribbentrop signed so flamboyantly at Berlin late last spring...
...last few years, loud have been the critics-both faculty and student-about the way Dr. Conant handles men. One after another, popular young teachers have been fired, from Economics Instructors John Raymond Walsh and Alan R. Sweezy two years ago to Art Instructor Robin D. Feild last spring. Basic reason for the firings was a slump in Harvard's income from its investments, resulting in a tighter budget. But facultymen complained that President Conant was a budget autocrat, that he used a slide-rule formula in dealing out money to the various departments. Students grumbled because they believed...
...Last spring Harvard's faculty hoped for reform in Dr. Conant's hiring & firing policies when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...
According to the memorandum, "each man was considered on his merits, absolute and relative. . . . All the decisions reached in the spring of 1939 were made jointly by the Administration and the Departments concerned. Usually the departments were unanimous; in no Department was there more than one dissentient opinion...