Word: transferring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annual Speech from the Throne (TIME, Nov. 8). Genial Lord Cecil spoke of his winning the Nobel Prize last week as "a feather in the cap of the League of Nations." Like many another British lord he has something of a weakness for the Nazis. "A plain, naked transfer of territory back to Germany would be difficult," said Nobel Prizeman Cecil last week. "I would favor the return of colonies [to Germany] being discussed...
...tried Columbia first in 1922. There she tinkered with an elementary course in photography mostly for credits. A transfer to the University of Michigan brought her closer to her real interests, biology and herpetology (reptiles). To carry on, she returned to work in a paradise of turtles, snakes, and caterpillars, Cleveland's museum of natural history. In 1927 Margaret Bourke-White was a Cornell graduate, an AOPi, and her interest, but not her affection for reptiles, had waned...
...figure they would be willing to sell out, replied $750,000,000. The new bill is to force them to sell out for $330,000,000 and its expected passage will provide another $50,000,000 to compensate them for special losses expected to arise in so huge a transfer...
...Another reason for the transfer was said to have been reports that the Catalans were negotiating for a separate peace with Franco...
...what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number of levels below John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer. Clearly marked for commercial success, this Rice pudding is seasoned with everything that ever came out of Author Rice's cupboard: courtroom atmosphere (On Trial, Counsellor-at-Law), social indignation (We, the People), personal pique (letters to the New York Times), alternately satirical and glamorous treatment of artists, writers...