Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causing peace strikes all over the country. But there are many who strenuously object to beclouding the issue with social problems and labor agitation. Every national malady should be treated and discussed at the right time and place, and labor problems are very pressing in this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely to the cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today...
Babe Ruth made his big-league debut in 1914. The character who, 23 years later, seemed highly likely to develop into an even more prodigious figure upon the U. S. scene is Cleveland's Robert William Feller, who last year made his big-league debut at the age of 17. This year Feller is not only the youngest regular pitcher currently functioning in the major leagues, but also the youngest in big-league history. This alone would make him a noteworthy figure, but it is only one of Pitcher Feller's qualifications for baseball immortality...
...power of its story, The Fall of the City proved to most listeners that the radio, which conveys only sound, is science's gift to poetry and poetic drama, that 30 minutes is an ideal time for a verse play, that artistically radio is ready to come of age, for in the hands of a master a $10 receiving set can become a living theatre, its loudspeaker a national proscenium...
...Department; conversely the services of a larger number of younger men are required to carry the tutorial and instruction burden. It is the stated policy of the University not to let any younger man hold an position at Harvard for more than six or eight years or beyond the age of about 35 unless the man is definitely slated for a higher position, it being felt that it is unfair to the man to keep him here at a low salary when he might earn more at another university. If a man stays here up to the age...
...desire to enjoy the blessings of a perfect love was exceeded only by the keenest ambition to become recognized as a great artist. All through her brief career she held these goals before her, willing to sacrifice everything to acquire them. Yet she died at the age of twenty-four, having gone only a short way on her ambitious and difficult journey. Gladstone read her diary and recognized her as "a true genius, one of these abnormal beings who seem to be born into the world once or twice in a generation...