Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...further evidence of President Conant's willingness to comply with the suggestions in the "Committee of Eight" Report, the University announced yesterday the appointments of Professor Graustein and Associate Professor Buck as Assistant Deans of Faculty. Enlargement of the function and personnel of this office has long been urged as a step toward alleviating problems of tenure and promotion among the faculty. Instead of being a mere channel through which the departmental recommendations were submitted to the President, the Office should now become a positive force in the system of appointment...
...Anton deHaas, William Ziogler Professor of International Relationships, yesterday received the award of Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau from Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands...
...squad turned out for practice yesterday but the little information could be gathered then as to the calibre of the team, for the turnout was incomplete. Carr led the team through an easy practice in fundamentals heading and trapping and then dismissed them till today, when a larger squad is expected...
Reporting on a family weekend at Hyde Park, Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt last week wrote in My Day: "After lunch yesterday my brother [Gracie Hall Roosevelt] wanted to go over to look at a barn which the President is interested in changing into a house. As usual, the President thinks it can be done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could...
Sometimes the seasons move swiftly. Sometimes there comes an hour when men say "Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring." Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business fortnight ago when war broke out: whole industries burst into flower, steel, machine tools (see p. 59), aircraft (see p. 63), etc. Many a smaller business feels the push of the season in the same way. Typical of many such were the new conditions last week faced by Marion Steam Shovel Co., No. 2 U. S. maker of shovels (No. 1: Bucyrus-Erie), 1938 net sales...