Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wellesley yields to none, however, in democracy. Although only about 10% of its students need to work for their college living, it is a proud Wellesley boast that by her campus dress the tycoon's daughter cannot be told from the clerk's daughter. Fashions run to inexpensive sports clothes and low-heeled shoes, with hare legs & socks much in evidence this year. Lest snobbery or cliquishness raise its head. Wellesley charges the same for all dormitory rooms, assigns them by lot. Priding itself on a well-rounded life, Wellesley is inclined to think Bryn Mawr and Mount...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science. The question: Shall Science take, a holiday? Sir James as the astronomer-physicist president of the Association, held out doggedly against such an idea one day on one platform. The next day on another platform Sir Josiah, as the Association's economist-tycoon treasurer, seemed to think it would do no great harm...
...Coffee Pot cook produced a study of morning sunlight filtering through a great tree in Central Park which a metropolitan art dealer snapped up. The ex-broker found peace in sculpture, modeled a striking bust of a jut-jawed, middle-aged tycoon. The secretary painted a smiling portrait of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on an old piece of bristol board. It has been purchased for the White House. The high-school boy drew automobiles. It got him a job as sports cartoonist on a Manhattan newspaper. The cripple turned out some slashing caricatures of the Four Marx Brothers which Warner Bros...
...governmental assurance could not exorcise the jitters, the voice of a tycoon might. This month General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. led off the list of the Atlantic Monthly's contributors. Wrote...
...instrument boards, auto gadgets) was gobbled up by its Toledo neighbor Electric Auto-Lite, presumably to edge into Moto Meter's lucrative business with Walter P. Chrysler. Last week Moto Meter's brusque, efficient President Royce G. Martin was made head of Auto-Lite, succeeding Clement O. Miniger, ignition tycoon, onetime drug salesman, who became board chairman...