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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be highly desirable if the University would team up with the City of Cambridge, and by the judicious use of men, long-handled ice-picks, elbow grease, engineering science, and a humane desire to make this fair world a better place to live in, remove all vestiges of ice and packed snow from the sidewalks and paths of Harvard...
...submitted that great diversity would have resulted. Of course the best indication of the fact that the questions were legitimate grounds for speculation is the fact that Mr. Kranz himself has researched concerning question five, producing a subtle and interesting truth worthy of the legal world. His use of the term "pressure of business" takes us back to the good old academic days of the court plan...
...rebirth in architecture took the form of creative audacity on a grand scale. Commissioned in 1916 to build the new Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, he produced one of the marvels of modern construction. A vast, low building on a symmetrical plan, it was Wright's first ambitious use of the cantilever principle, which allowed him to rest each concrete floor slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial...
...almost midway in the winter circuit, it was the beginning of a new year and a new race for money-winning honors. This. too, was the first tournament in which they were officially compelled by the new U. S. Golf Association ruling (TIME, Jan. 11, 1937) to use not more than 14 clubs.* And worst of all-there was Sam Snead...
Last month General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr. established the $10,000,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to promote "a wider knowledge of basic economic truths generally accepted as such by authorities of recognized standing." This week the foundation surprised cynics, who feared the money might be used as a propaganda fund for big business, by turning over the income on $1,000,000-between $35,000 and $40,000-to the University of Chicago. Not sure yet how it would use the gift, the university emphasized it had been given complete freedom to decide what truths to broadcast...