Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such famous institutions as the Amsterdamsche Bank n. v., the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy n. v., Mendelssohn & Co. (now defunct), whose proprietors will turn a guilder almost anywhere they can find one. They are still sorry that Spain's Dictator Franco turned down their offer to bank him last spring. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Amsterdam became a concentration camp for refugee money. The city's grain market is one of the biggest in Europe; its stock-market is a sensitive, if not completely reliable, seismograph of world conditions...
...students are organized as the Harvard Radio Workshop, an organization first begun last spring by Archibald MacLeish, now librarian of Congress. Officers of the group are: production director, Arthur Gnaodinger '41, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Leverett House; continuity director, Wallace Hamilton '41, of New York City and Leverett House; and treasurer, James J. Storrow Jr., '41, of Chestnut Hill and Leverett House...
...addition to the American history programs, the Radio Workshop is preparing special experimental broadcasts, one of them a script of the poetic drama "Inquest" by Theodore Spencer, visiting lecturer in English. Several members of the Workshop are working on individual script projects. Last spring the group produced and recorded a version of Sophocles' "Antigone" in collaboration with the World Wide Broadcasting experts...
...first reasonable use of the new-found flexibility would be the reappointment of a few of the assistant professors who were officially handed their walking papers last spring. The double-edged case for them has often been stated: that they have proven their abilities as teachers and scholars, and that they are urgently needed by their departments at the present time. In the final analysis, flexibility should exist for no other reason than to provide a solution when one or both of these two situations exist. Whether or not the Administration will admit this remains to be seen...
...three-year experiment of holding the meet at Randalls Island in New York has shown itself to be unsuccessful, and for this reason the games return next spring to Soldiers Field. The last Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. meet to be staged at Harvard...