Word: worldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this arduous but joyful experimentation, no one of us. I think, had any idea that what we were doing was only an ephemeral experiment. The act of faith in founding the school was being transformed into permanence. We knew that in reality the business world had summoned the school into being, and as we worked we were conscious of an increasingly favorable environment. The old training for business, formal or informal apprenticeship, was breaking down; the rule of thumb was giving way to instruments of precision and the intelligence to handle them. The majority of college graduates, even without...
...frequently in the future, gritty, gifted men from the lowest ranks. A progressive society must follow Napoleon's maxim of "careers open to talent." But accumulating experience confirms the policy of the school. There flows thence a stream of young men who carry from the school into the business world professional standards, a genuine respect for the intellectual and moral requirements of modern business and a continuing thirst and capacity for knowledge. These are the subalterns whom experience fashions into commanders. These are the men who have made themselves fit to learn and improve the art and science of business...
...sized room. For two years they will show the pictures of contemporary European, Mexican and U. S. painters and sculptors, culled from the artists' studios, loaned or given by patrons, loaned or sold by dealers. The neighborhood of the Heckscher Building is the greatest art-mart in the world. After two years the Modern Museum plans to build its own building. Pledged for generous donations are many patrons who are waiting to see "if the thing is a success." Willing to take a chance, the committee of seven has already given the impetus-money. They are: Chairman Anson Conger...
Fame is a thing California loves and understands. It was with joyous fanfare that the state welcomed Robert Tyre Jones Jr., world's most famed golfer, to the National Amateur Championship at Pebble Beach. It was that multiple champion's first Pacific Coast appearance. Eager thousands watched him shoot 67 in a practice round, 70 and 75 in the qualifying rounds, which tied for first place. Thus far Fame played to form. Then it flubbed miserably...
Like the wreck of the Titanic, the crash of Transcontinental Air Transport's City of Sau Francisco in New Mexico last week was relatively one of the world's great commercial disasters. It was the first bad one on a U. S. Trans- continental air line. The great trimotored Ford with five passengers and crew of three flew west from Albuquerque, N. Mex., into an electrical storm and oblivion...