Word: whole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among reforms in departmental procedure put forward is the establishment of committees, elected by the whole of each department, including instructors, and having a rotating membership. The purpose of such committees as defined by the Union report would be to investigate from all angles the qualifications of candidates for appointment or promotion in order to "make possible a better selection of personnel...
...House committee on Un-American Activities imposed upon itself a publicity rule: no sounding-off by individual members (including Chairman Martin Dies), only statements by the committee as a whole. With its new $100,000 appropriation in hand, the committee hired Lawyer Rhea Whitley, 35, to head its investigating staff. Mr. Whitley, stocky and curly-haired, was in FBI for ten years (1927-37), with a final "nice, easy, restful" hitch in Manhattan. He studied law at Washington & Lee, married a Sweet Briar girl. Un-Americans from Jonesboro, Ark. might get a break from him. He was born there...
...Friends of Music. The Esterhazy family (on whose estate Haydn lived and was mostly buried) announced that until the skull was returned, no one could have access to the valuable collection of Haydn manuscripts in the family library. Last November a truce was made. By last week Haydn was whole again, and the Esterhazy papers were unlocked for the world...
...director since 1935, found that scientists are individualists, hard to team up, harder still to hold to a program of research. Moreover, the Institute had no clear program. Some individual divisions, notably Dr. Gesell's, turned up much valuable data, but the Institute as a whole wandered all over creation. Yale's famed Anthropologist Albert Galloway Keller sneered at the whole affair...
Suggested for adults: 18 ounces (about one loaf) of whole wheat a day, for carbo-lydrates; two-fifths of an ounce of salt, tor maintaining the water balance in body tissues; the same quantity of brewers' yeast, for vitamin B; one-twelfth of an ounce of cod-liver oil, for vitamin A; half a lemon twice weekly, for vitamin C. If two ounces of dried skim-milk powder are available, brewers' yeast can be omitted. Other corrections: growing children need more cod-liver oil and skim-milk powder than adults, but less salt. If lemons or oranges...