Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Niftiest and most readable of the new dictionaries* was produced by grey-haired Percy Alfred Scholes, onetime London critic and most prolific of all contemporary English writers on music. Unlike Editors Wier and Thompson, Author Scholes wanted no help with his dictionary, hid himself away in the Swiss Alps, where he labored for more than six years in an isolated house crammed with books and files. There, working from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m., day after day, intrepid Lexicographer Scholes laboriously wrote out the whole of his million-word book. When he had finished, he had covered...
...Ashram (retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left...
...author of the communication in yesterday's Crimson expressed the opinion that the plan of the Harvard Committee for Refugees was "laudable" but "short-sighted and unintelligent." His suggestion was that the fund should be used for the daily needs of a great number of refugees, rather than for the education of 20 selected students, for whom "higher education is a luxury...
...scotch--it is very weak. The celebrated race is well-handled, and portrays the extraordinary intelligence of the shepherd dogs, but even here Wull loses only because his master has taken one drink too many, and not because Bob is the superior strategist. In place of the original author's dramatic conclusion, doubtless because it involved a dog-fight abhorrent to the S.P.C.A., a weak and insipidly sentimental one has been created; and, all in all, the fundamental power of "the greatest dog story ever filmed" has been lost...
CHAMPAIGN, III.,--Notre Dame despite its defeat by Southern California, tonight was proclaimed national football champion by Frank G. Dickinson, Assistant Economics Professor at the University of Illinois and author of the Dickinson Football Rating System. The 1938 Dickinson ratings-- Rank Team W L T Pis. 1 Notre Dame 8 1 0 27.72 2 Duke 9 0 0 37.10 3 Tonunessec 10 0 0 26.68 4 So.California 10 0 0 28.71 5 Oklahoma 10 0 038.69 6 Michigan 6 1 1 28.02 7 Minnesota 6 2 0 22.71 8 Texas Christian 10 0 0 22.67 9 Alabama...