Word: worsteds
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Pelley. As spokesman for U. S. railroads, worst hit of all U. S. industries, President J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads declared: "During the first nine months of the year 1937 railway employment was consistently greater than in 1936. During the final three months, however, a reversal . . . brought the average for that period down to 3% below 1936. The decline was an accelerating one, amounting to 32,000 men in November and 73.500 in December...
Perhaps the most exasperating, most infuriating of the petty hazards of life, which tend to delay the student are the snowy, ice-crusted side-walks which are to be found on every street near Harvard Square, and worst of all on every path in the Yard. Occasionally one can find a few traces of sand or ashes on an otherwise glassy, treacherous surface, but such life-saving spots are far and few between, and when found, they exist only in small piles, so that their effectiveness is definitely limited. In order to navigate with even a modicum of safety...
...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 week Ford Motor Co. announced that 1937 had been its second best year since 1930, with a total world production of 1,314,369 units. In another respect, however-public relations-1937 was perhaps the worst year in Ford history. Once universally regarded as a model employer, in 1937 Henry Ford saw himself and his company held up to hatred in a suddenly labor-conscious nation. Only fortnight ago came an adverse ruling on his labor policies by the National Labor Relations Board. But Henry Ford has not merely a genius for building machines; he also has, whenever...
...marriage of Prince and Princess Lieven was that it lasted for almost 40 years. Russian Ambassador to England after the Napoleonic wars, Lieven was an upright, punctilious, short-sighted wittol whose portrait makes him look like an aristocratic Andy Gump. Dorothea, his wife, was "the most feared, most flattered, worst hated female politician of her day." Because Dorothea was known to be the mistress of Metternich, and because she was on very intimate terms with the Duke of Wellington, George IV, Tsar Alexander, Lord Castlereagh, many others, cynics assumed that her marriage was one of expediency. But when her private...