Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...designed and colored to suit the housewife's fancy, was installed last week inside the radio of an average-income family in Chicago. Installer was A. C. Nielsen Co.,'s Executive Vice-President Hugo L. Rusch, who is out to start a new and much better listener survey service for advertisers. Two hundred similar "Audimeters" will soon be placed in private homes and the Nielsen firm, Chicago marketing research organization, expects by the end of the year to have more than 5,000 spotted in radios throughout the country...
...Latin & Greek were staples of the U. S. high-school curriculum. Either because or in spite of that fact, the curriculum was under sharp attack. One of its severest critics, dynamic Dr. Abraham Flexner, then secretary of the Carnegie Foundation, got the Rockefeller General Education Board to start the Lincoln School, an experimental, "progressive" school. It was attached to Columbia University's Teachers College. Today Lincoln School has about 650 pupils in all grades from kindergarten through high school, is counted one of the leading progressive institutions in the U. S. The school has done many unorthodox things, such...
Last week in Philadelphia some 50 members of the Kingsley Club rose to their feet, spoke their pieces. Half-a-dozen took an extreme test before a radio microphone. Not a speaker faltered. Recited Philip Fairstone, 15, a high-school student: / try the teacher's patience, I start the pupils roaring; I break up the monotony Of classes that are boring. I am a stammerer...
Born in 1879, son °of a wealthy British pill manufacturer (Beecham's Pills: "Worth a Guinea a Box"), hearty Sir Thomas got an early start waving a baton over orchestras and operatic casts. In 1906 he founded the New Symphony Orchestra (now the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra), and in the next three years doggedly conducted a series of Queen's Hall concerts despite discouragingly small public response. In 1911 he was instrumental in bringing the Imperial Russian Ballet to London, two years later combined it with a season of Russian opera. Many English composers...
Captain George Meyer's boat, boasting a strong Sophomore contingent, Yale with an equally powerful Junior outfit, Columbia, and Penn lined up at the start for the first qualifying heat...