Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even one large, well known university or college to install a new head is an event of interest; but for three schools to choose the same day to inaugurate new regimes is unusual. It is not an easy task to find men capable of running institutions worth millions of dollars. The fact that three such men, Charles Seymour at Yale, James Phinney Baxter at Williams, and Edmund Day at Cornell, have shown the necessary qualifications for these exacting positions, is vital in itself. It shows that right now, this year, there are being produced and are available men of highest...
...seems worth while, therefore, to combine Mr. Foster's original data by another method to see what difference, if any, it would make in the final ranking of these sixteen outstanding graduate schools. t This has been done after conference with Mr. Foster and at his specific request. This article in The Alumni Bulletin is published with his approval...
...Think Fast Mr. Moto" is the second feature and in it the sinister Peter Lorre jiu-jitzues his way to the exposure of an astute leader of a smuggling gang. A dramatic finish gives extra impetus to a film whose worth depends entirely on the individual's liking for Mr. Lorre. "Think Fast Mr. Moto" loses some of its punch since its theme is too strongly in contrast with that of its forerunner and becomes the mediocre backer-up on a mediocre bill...
Since the measure of a newspaper columnist's worth nowadays seems to be the amount of time he devotes to the radio, the old cavalryman's advent on the air was accepted by his friends as proof that he had journalistically arrived. Simultaneously United Feature proudly announced that it had sold him to his 49th paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...year ago when Pennsylvania's Bishop Francis Marion Taitt, ordinarily a scholarly, retiring churchman, marched down Broad Street, with austere little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, other dignitaries and Episcopal laity, singing Onward Christian Soldiers. The Episcopal missionary budget was short once more-$250,000 worth-and Bishop Taitt was doing his part by holding a mission mass meeting in the Academy of Music. Soon, his access of zeal continuing, Bishop Taitt organized a Diocese Missionary Research Committee to devise ways of dramatizing missions. Result was the pageant, for which plans were laid last spring...