Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Terra of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences wirelessed from Java that he had found in Java and Burma crude Old Stone Age tools which convinced him that contemporaries of China's Peking Man and Java's Ape-Man (Pithecanthropus erectus) had wandered over the whole Asiatic coast as far west as the Indian Ocean. These old men of China and Java are considered the most ancient of human fossils-500,000 to 1,000,000 years old. Dr. de Terra now believes that the oldest toolmaking culture in Asia originated in the southeastern part...
...setting for a group of statues on the bank. Mr. Samuel threw fits. His wife, he cried, had left her money for statues, not for balustrades. At this the association threw up its hands and settled down again to wait for Joseph Bunford Samuel to mellow with age...
...February day in 1935 he filled a vacancy on the Board of Education with a squarejawed, tousle-headed young man named James Marshall. His very first day Jimmy Marshall split not only with the Tammanyites but with his Fusion colleague, supported a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 18. Before the month was out he was known as the most uncompromising member of the Board of Education...
...last week tacked up a map of U. S. "intellectual slums." The Federation had just finished a shocked inspection of the nation's blighted school areas, where the generation growing up is getting little schooling or none at all. It found some 3,300,000 children of school age (5 to 17) not enrolled in any school, found even in relatively well-off Wisconsin 55,000 youngsters who get less than 90 days of schooling a year (the U. S. norm is 200 days). Most squalid intellectual slums are in the South. Worst slum: Alabama, with only...
...eloquent introduction to the book, which pays a high tribute to Llewelyn Powys the writer, a higher tribute to Powys the teacher. "Let no one suppose," says Brooks, "that Llewelyn Powys is merely another nature-writer, eloquent, observant and persuasive. He has something to say to this age of despair and darkness, an age in which writers in all the tongues of Babel repeat that life is futile and worse than nothing...