Word: three
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides these there were three new, surprise donations, for which Daniel Guggenheim gave yet another $500,000 last week: 1) $250,000 to the City of Akron (if the city raises a like amount) for an Airship Institute, to study lighter-than-air problems under supervision of the California Institute of Technology; 2) $140,000 for a Chair of Aeronautics in the Library of Congress; 3) the balance to some southern university for an aeronautical school. Which southern university will get the money depends upon the proved enterprise of its faculty...
...Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...
President Madden will retain his Deanship at New York University while he directs the fortunes of the Institute. He will see that each Alexander Hamilton applicant receives his 24 textbooks, his monthly "lecture," reading directions, business reports. Besides the two-year course, President Madden will direct three new 16-month courses in production, marketing, finance...
Proud that "60% of the 358,442 subscribers to the Course and Service are Senior Executives . . . the average age of Institute subscribers is 37. ... One out of three Institute men is a university graduate," the Institute modestly insists: "You will never find us claiming that every man who enrolls in the Institute becomes a president. (But of the men who have enrolled, 45,000 are presidents.) . . . We don't take credit for the fine records made by our graduates any more than Yale or Princeton or Harvard take credit for theirs...
...only person Critic Hannen Swaffer has belittled. He once called Playwright George Bernard Shaw "a tiresome old driveller." Playwright Shaw did not smack Critic Swaffer's face. Instead, at the annual luncheon of the Critics' Circle last month in London, when Toastmaster St. John Ervine divided dramatic critics into three kinds?"critics, reporters and Hannen Swaffer"?Shaw said all dramatic critics were very bad, compared Swaffer to the late great Playwright-Critic William Archer,* said that Archer was worse...