Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because of the expense of maintaining staffs large enough to carry the specialized work of tutorial, and because it was thought that some students were not adapted to this form of study, the University last year announced a modification of the program, terming their action as "the most important development during the year affecting the academic work of students in Harvard College...
...courage in both hands, Secretary Wallace last week set out to talk to wheat farmers at Hutchinson, Kans. and-cotton growers in Fort Worth, and promised to talk next week to corn farmers at Springfield, Ill. "Fight for the program that you have," he urged, then revealed what he thought should be done to AAA II to make it work...
Whether there was an individual hero of the Cubs' sensational pennant victory (they won 21 of their last 25 games), no two fans could agree. Some thought it was 39-year-old Charlie Root, who pitched the pennant-clinching game against the Cardinals. Others hailed big Bill Lee, winner of 22 games this season, who pitched on four successive days last week; Dizzy Dean who, even with his sore arm, beat the Pirates in the first game of their crucial series just before the final series in St. Louis; Manager Gabby Hartnett who, knowing Dizzy Dean's love...
...still remain the dub who thought people desired cheap transportation, only to see them adopt 'traveling houses' finished and upholstered better than their own homes and furniture...
Developed by NBC as a sustaining program, Information Please long attracted no sponsor because agencies thought it appealed to an intellectual, and therefore limited, audience. But last week, at last, the program had a taker-Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc. for a reported $2,500 per week. Canada Dry, which once sponsored Jack Benny but has not been on a network for nearly seven years, bought Information Please because it has a fairly large and very vociferous "quality" audience. Its attractions...