Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept me in my seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...
Price rises in such great world staples as wheat, cotton, rubber and copper have been as thoroughly publicized as the Roosevelt bull market. But the world is full of a number of things just as important to industrial civilization as staples. For a broad view of commodities the businessman leans on the big wholesale price indices, typical of which are those computed by Dun & Bradstreet, the Department of Labor and the Annalist, financial weekly published by the New York Times. Last week a 23-year picture of these indices looked like this...
...reached one Clayton Glyn, an eligible socialite old bachelor, he made up his mind that Elinor was the girl for him. She had not pictured Romance with silver hair (Glyn's was prematurely grey), but she admired his worldy ways, his perfect teeth, his "quaintly arrogant point of view." And she was 27. They married...
Faculty members disagree about the knowledge-vending emporiums, whose annual intake comes to $200,000. Dean Alfred C. Hanford leads a bloc which would like to prevent students from enrolling in them. Others--like Professor Roger B. Merriman--take a more liberal view, and suggests their students using them for purposes of reviewing the work of an entire course...
...University's system of advisers--faculty members who help Freshmen adjust themselves to college life. An adviser is supposed to steer his Freshman along the right track, whenever necessary sending them to a supervisor for general guidance. If such assistance does not help, Harvard's o cial view is that the student isn't college calibre, and he ought to get out--not go to a tutoring school, cram for a few days or hours, and squeeze through examinations by the aid of his pocketbook...