Word: agee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of the abilities of 103 W.P.A. workers to predict their activities, the book concludes that women orr more than men, younger age groups orr more than older groups, single men more than married, poorer classes more than better ones, Jews more than Catholics, and Catholics more than Protestants...
Massachusetts' educators and press and the National Education Association howled. This did not disturb Mr. Reardon, who proceeded to replace Dr. Smith's expert staff with "homebred" applicants. He sneered at Harvard professors, fought a bill to raise the compulsory school age to 16, championed a teachers' oath law. His critics fell silent, waited for a whirlwind. Last week it appeared that a hurricane would be Mr. Reardon's undoing...
...Adventurous Career." Dr. Sigerist admits with pride that he has had "an adventurous career." Born in Paris in 1891. he moved at an early age to Zurich, Switzerland, later went to the University there. He also studied in England and Germany. When he was 14 he decided to become an Orientalist, ordered an Arabic grammar from an astounded bookseller, and rose an hour early every morning to plough through Arabic verbs. Then he plunged eagerly into Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Chinese. His career as an Orientalist came to an end when his teachers wanted him to specialize. "All my life...
...Bowen. With her fifth and best novel, The Death of the Heart, she comes to the literary maturity promised in her other four-promised as far back, in fact, as the 205, when she published her first short stories in The Dial. Plain readers should find her coming-of-age as congenial as the most exacting critic...
...From the age of twelve, when her mother died of cancer, till she was 23, when she married, Elizabeth Bowen lived much of the time with relatives in England, or on her own in Continental and English boarding houses, returning to Bowen's Court only on visits...