Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Hearst dailies, with a reputed salary of $150,000 a year. The course of the next three years was not wholly smooth. Big, self-confident Col. Knox several times offered his resignation, which "W. R." refused, believing perhaps that experience in the big business of chain publishing would eventually shape his man to the ways of Hearst. Last week he accepted it, uttered regrets. Reason given by Col. Knox: "... A difference of opinion as to methods of management." Friends said that Col. Knox had saved all his Hearst salary, that he is well supported by the interest which he still...
Mountaineers With Hairy Ears. The Draft Convention adopted in Geneva last week was whipped into final shape this autumn (TIME, Nov. 17) after one of the longest diplomatic haggling matches of the 20th Century...
...Newark, Boston, Chicago, Providence, has been suspected of arranging an appeal to whatever foreign element is largest in the town where the race was being held. But recent races won by Frenchmen Letourner & Guinbretiere in Pole-filled Chicago have weakened such suspicion. In one way undoubtedly Tsar Chapman can shape his races-he teams the riders. Anyone who objects to being teamed the way he wants has no way of protesting, since Chapman controls the business. He rode races himself till 1903, then managed tracks in Butte and Salt Lake City, slowly expanding. Every year he goes to the Paris...
Gradually, it may be seen, that the acquisition of culture is becoming less dependent on the stiff pedagogy of the lecture platform and assuming a more informal, palatable shape. It has been realized that a pleasant environment conduces both to easier and more profitable study. This fine arts counterpart of the literary Farnsworth room will be a source of pleasure for the many who find the coldly formal atmosphere of the average library or museum distasteful...
...struck at the communistic rule. Pointing out that only one out of every hundred Russians are Communists, he presents a picture of one hundred and twenty millions of ignorant peasants, submerged in squalidity and often bewildered by the complete overthrow of the world of their fathers, 'being whipped into shape by the young Communists. In the Communists he finds a "new priesthood" who neither drank nor believed in God "because both of them clouded one's brain," whose courage and self-denial he finds comparable to the Jesuits, whose motto, in one case, ranked religion with drunkeness, smoking and hooliganism...