Word: mcgraw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...McGraw-Hill Publishing made $343,343 against $251,325 in the third quarter of 1935, bringing its nine-months' earnings to $745,268, more money than it has earned in any twelvemonth since...
Last week Ernest R. ("Pop") Haselwood looked like a good bet against the field. Bus Transportation, McGraw-Hill trade journal, was tabulating returns in its contest, not to be decided until late this year, to discover who is the safest bus driver in the U. S. Owen Meredith of Enid. Okla. drove 976,800 miles without scratching a fender. Ancel Mistier of Sedalia, Mo. turned up with a no-accident record of 950,000 miles. But "Pop" Haselwood of Chappell, Neb. in 20 years had driven 1,772,651 miles without a ''chargeable" accident. Driver Haselwood...
Ruddy, elderly, grey-haired Lawyer Baldwin, who is a past president of the National Publishers Association, onetime vice president of McGraw Hill Publishing Co. and longtime personal counsel to the late Charles Francis Murphy, Tammany boss, was not content to leave his Creme de Menthe jingle as his sole recorded effort, though he says: "No man likes to be known as a poet." He sought and obtained permission to recite to the inquisitorial committee another verse...
Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
...Babies," Dr. McGraw was convinced, "have got rhythm...