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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Funniest incident occurred at a football match in Prostejov, Moravia, when a second-rate player named Benes was taken out of the game. Shouted enthusiastic football fans: "We want Benes! Put Benes back!" To the question: " Which Benes?" they roared: "Both...
...consistently as good or better. The fact that Charley Ruprecht, regular number six man in the Blue boat and only other oarsman with varsity four-mile experience, will be unable to row, is going to make Yale even more of a question mark than ever. His place has been taken by George Vietor...
...conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however, is color. Exasperated, like other young perfectionists, at the chemical impermanence of certain modern ready-made paint, Grosser began some years ago to grind and mix his own colors, a process in which he has taken infinite pains. Result is a clean brilliance of color made luminous by transparent strokes in oil over tempera underpainting...
Speculators have taken these successes as signs of general increase in consumer purchases. Actually the general increase has been small; the mail-order houses and chains have increased profits not because the consumer cake is much bigger but because they have got bigger slices of it. Five months' U. S. department-store sales were up only 3% from last year against combined sales increases for Ward, Sears, J. C. Penney...
...recommendations of the report. At each meeting queries and doubts on many points notably on the proposed abolition of the assistant professorship--seemed at least as evident as signs of approval. No specific motions, however, were entertained. Each meeting was prefaced with the statement that votes would not be taken; and particular requests for a vote were refused. The sole effort to evoke or appraise opinion as a whole consisted of the statement, made at each meeting, that failure to declare objection by letter would be taken as constituting approval of all the recommendations...