Word: agee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several methods of avoiding high prices were suggested: 1) Planting rubber in the Philippines and elsewhere outside British control (this will not bring relief for several years, however?not until the rubber trees grow to bearing age.) 2) Co-operative buying, perhaps legally enforced, by all U. S. rubber manufacturers. 3) Using rubber as economically as possible, and carefully reclaiming all old rubber. 4) Tapping wild rubber trees still growing in many places...
...Museum of Natural History (New York City) was never more widely advertised than last year. There was the Scopes trial in Tennessee, which sent thousands of news-following New Yorkers and out-of-town visitors to stand at gaze before the evolutionary figures in the famed hall of the Age of Man. The Museum had 142,047 more visitors than in any previous year, 1,775,890 in all. Its subscribing membership increased by 1,055 to a total of 8,519. Its educational program reached 5,400,000 school children...
...this is much too romantic for a realistic age. Better the gargoyled truth of Sherwood Anderson's sardonic laughter, laughter which he finally admits is--black. But if life is not an afternoon of tea and toast and silver spoons, neither is it a night of sin, sex, and sentiment, and there is no particularly cogent reason why anyone should waste it reading laboratory manuals with colored jackets...
...learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities, many of which have recently taken steps similar to that now ordered at Harvard in relaxing the rigidity of classroom requirements, seem in general to be moving more and more toward the principles and concepts which prevail in the age-old universities of Great Britain and of the European Continent. --Boston Transcript...
...officially sanctioned Soviet chess "king" and "queen" are pieces carved to represent a working man and a peasant woman. The "pawns" bear the insignia of "Pionerki": a political society for children that have not yet reached the age for entry into the Young Communist League...