Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventor of the turbojet engine walked off the Queen Elizabeth last week, on his way to receive the U.S. Legion of Merit. Slim, smart Air Commodore Frank Whittle of the R.A.F. was brimming (in a reserved, don't-spill-a-drop British manner) with enthusiasm for the jet age...
Boston's venerable Lowell Institute refused to admit its age. Last week it joined with six local colleges and universities to form the Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council. The purpose: to broadcast learned lectures as a typically Boston bluestocking scheme of adult education. All seven Boston radio stations accepted the plan, which would be financed by stations and colleges, share & share alike. To the Lowell Institute it was one more opportunity to advance the cause of learning which had been the Institute's job for more than a century...
...will provided that the Institute should sponsor lectures "on the Historical and Internal Evidence in Favor of Christianity," the "Arts and Sciences," "the Literature and Eloquence of Our Language," and such other subjects as "the wants and taste of the age demand." Lecturers were required to believe "in the divine revelation of the Old and New Testaments," listeners to "be neatly dressed and of orderly behaviour." (Both requirements long since canceled.) A Lowell, if there was a "competent" one, would always be trustee. (The Institute's present trustee: Boston Banker Ralph Lowell.) If inflation ever spiraled too high...
Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...
Usually, says Author Marshall, her husband "would start [a new job] with the . . . enthusiasm of a young lieutenant on his first assignment." But when, in 1933, approaching a colonel's retirement age, he was ordered to leave his regiment and become Senior Instructor of the Illinois National Guard, he dashed off a letter to Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, pleading that such a shift would be "fatal to his future." MacArthur was adamant, and for months Author Marshall watched her husband go about his new duties with "a grey, drawn look." When Colonel Marshall's generalcy came through...