Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Paul Anderson could now write "liberal" articles, meaning pro-New Deal, and two weeks ago your Art critic did some fancy theological hairsplitting about Old Liberal Lippmann and New Liberal Lewis Mumford, the sense of which was that they had nothing in common. After that I expected the worst, which came last week: "The partners in a Yorkshire textile mill, Alfred Armistead, liberal Conservative, and Henry Hinchliffe, conservative Liberal...
Situation at its Worst...
...commenting on these figures, Dean Hanford said yesterday: "It is unfortunate that over 300 undergraduates should be disappointed in this first assignment to the Houses. It should be remembered, however, that the situation appears at its worst at this time, because we know from past experience that as a result of the inevitable changes in plans between now and next year many of the 1700 places in the Houses now assigned will be available for men on the Waiting List by next fall...
After peering and prying into hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps mouths, Dentist Edgar Alonzo Waterman of Portland, Ore. last week opened his own and spoke a large mouthful. Said Dentist Waterman: The best U. S. teeth come from Arkansas and Tennessee, the worst from New Jersey, New York and New England...
Last month America, influential Jesuit weekly, announced a Bias Contest, with cash prizes for readers who found the worst examples of anti-Catholic bias in a month's reading of the U. S. press (TIME, March 7). Wrote Rev. John A. Toomey, S.J., in announcing the contest: "It is anti-Catholic bias if it misleads readers on any Catholic question." Last week, announcing the prizewinners, America attributed bias to the following publications, in the following order: 1) Bergen Evening Record (Hackensack, N. J.), 2) The Apprentice (New York University undergraduate magazine), 3) Ladies' Home Journal, 4) Fact Digest...