Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FORTUNE concludes: 1) that the errors of pilots could be corrected by inaugurating more rigid training in instrument flying; 2) that the Department of Commerce should immediately double its radio beacon ranges and Weather Bureau stations; 3) that the Government should simplify flying regulations; 4) that the operators should speedily develop an infallible blind landing system...
Many undergraduates, particularly seniors, are beginning to wonder if the tide in their affairs is not already lapping at their feet. As the sands of college life disappear they will see one beacon by which to set their course--the Alumni Placement Office. Since 1935 the Office has been under the official aegis of the College, since 1936 the branch at the Harvard Club in New York has been similarly organized. Harvard has definitely assumed a measure of responsibility for its graduates, and particularly for those negotiating the thorny way from college to career...
Above the broad Tappan Zee, above Haverstraw, above the ledge-hugging concrete strip of U. S. Route 9 W rises a palisade actually called High Tor. Storms lash it furiously. And Playwright Anderson believes that the airplane beacon on its top was twice bowled over by stormy Dutchmen marooned for three centuries on High Tor, waiting for a ship to take them back to Amsterdam from the dark side of the world...
...Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold out to a darkened world the beacon of a just and permanent peace which we pledge ourselves to maintain on this American Continent. May the spirit and the example which we have consecrated here be of avail throughout the world...
Artist Copley married well, lived and worked in Boston until he was 36, entertaining the quality, living in a fine house with an eleven-acre farm on Beacon Hill. He had had quite a success with a portrait of his half-brother playing with a squirrel, which he had shipped to the London Society of Artists on the advice of his friend, Artist Benjamin West.* This, the first picture of John Singleton Copley to attract international attention, was back in the Metropolitan last week, lent by a heavily anonymous owner...