Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcers, and radio men, is composed of the leisure class of the newspaper fraternity. The rear rows of the press seats are filled with men from the morning papers, who have no story to send through the game, but can wait until long afterwards to wire a carefully considered account to their editors. Above the din of telegraph instruments and typewriters, these gentlemen sit at their ease, in attitudes suggesting expert opinion in repose...
...mountains from the plains of west Point, a hike of some 250 miles. Unlike the trip last night when all were protected in luxurious sleeping case, the corps of 1821 weathered in their tents and lean-tos varying degrees of clemency. Much of the trip, according to the newspaper account published in the Boston commercial Gazette of August 9 1821, was made in adverse weather conditions. On the last trip to Boston the cadets were presented with two standards by the selectmen on behalf of the city and state. Today a special flag will be awarded the corps on behalf...
...booters were held scoreless until the third period on account of the treacherous footing of the wet ground...
...this little book, Professor Mather gives a straight-forward account of a scientist's attempt to come to terms with the Administrator of the Universe. Few men have been as successful in pointing out the link between religion and science. During many years it has been his fortune to help undergraduates and others, in public address and by private counsel, to see that scientific truth can not conflict with religious truth. Quick to discern the assumptions of both science and religion, he suggests that both adhere to an experimental fact-finding method of considerable severity, with open mind where...
...monotonous scientific pursuits of Microbe Hunters Paul de Kruif found sensationalism enough to titivate a large public-he demonstrated fascination in the perverse antics of microbes, drama in the stolid heroism of hunters. More of the same, Hunger Fighters is a trustworthy though ebullient account of certain other men of science, unappreciated breeders of sturdy grain, students of cattle diseases, discoverers of fashionable vitamins. If the author coyly attributes an exasperated scientist with a few cusswords, or jazzes his pages with other self-conscious slang, it is but in his honest endeavor to educate a sugar-coated public. He makes...