Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Educator Hutchins, if given a free hand, would do to schools & schoolmen appears partly from his seven-year record at Chicago, where with one stroke he scrapped most of the old departmental di visions, realigned them, cut the number of budgets from 72 to twelve, offered to put smart youngsters through their academic paces as fast as they were able to go. To all U. S. colleges, according to his book, Educator Hutchins would do a great deal more...
...national defense was figured at $533,000,000 or 25% under that of the Hoover Administration. But $102,000,000 were deducted from War Department expenditures for checks not yet cashed and $176,000,000 of relief and recovery funds were spent on national defense. Cried Mr. Hoover: "A stroke of genius. . . ." In 1935 the Department of Agriculture cost only $62,000,000 compared to $319,000,000 "under the old-religion accounting." But the Department spent $413,000,000 additional in the name of recovery and relief. Declaring that juggling with the books had reduced the apparent size...
Bolles opened by saying that western material was in no way--superior to what he had found in the east. The heaviest man on the Washington crew was 186 pounds, he said, and Don Hume, the stroke, weighed about 160. After seeing the gathering at the meeting he believed that the material at Harvard would certainly be satisfactory...
Malta-Another hammer stroke of British policy last week was dealt on the Island of Malta whose predominantly Latin-Levantine-blooded citizens in 1921 were given full Responsible Government with their own Constitution and freely elected Legislative Assembly. Some of these swarthy British subjects have since shown for Italy a preference so marked that tension in Malta was extreme while Stanley Baldwin was pressing on with "Sanctions" against Benito Mussolini. Last week the Malta Constitution was abolished by His Majesty's Government, Malta was dropped from Responsible Government to the status of a Crown Colony in which the British...
...tennist, Helen Jacobs has a game marked less by brilliance or speed of stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing...