Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school in the world'' is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last week, in the idle...
This year Ohio's Governor Martin Davey did not appoint a committee, pleaded inadequate funds; Connecticut, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Samoa and the Virgin Islands sent no pictures; the Kansas exhibit consisted of 14 tidy prints that might have been designed in a fastidious recoil from the ostentatious earthiness of Midwesterners like Thomas Benton and Grant Wood. That State committees were an unpredictable factor was equally apparent in the State of Washington exhibit, predominantly abstract, and the Massachusetts collection, which was academic, mythological, and as out of tune with its neighbors as a choir at a Benny Goodman swing concert...
...Charged the Aluminum Company of America with being a "100% monopoly" in the production of virgin aluminum...
...prosecutor, is indicated by the fact that a $100 share in the company in 1890 has by now yielded a par value of $8,760, that some $100,000,000 has been paid in cash dividends in the past 48 years, that Alcoa admittedly controls 100% of the virgin aluminum production in the U. S., that everyone in the trade considers Alcoa a monopoly. In short, said Walter Rice: "If there is in this whole United States a single industry in which there is a 100% monopoly it is the aluminum industry...
...never considered myself an intellectual virgin until reading that "hump" is by some considered an obscene word. In what respect...