Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loitering along the Nova Scotia coast, lying fog-bound in isolated harbors, seagoing Franklin Roosevelt last week provided the seven correspondents expensively trailing him in a chartered schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home...
...creating a great force for destruction may be some-what relieved by knowing that we have allied this thought with intelligence and education and that we have moved that power farther away from ignorance. I find some cause for hope in the belief that the power which must be bound to knowledge is less dangerous to civilization than that which is barbaric. It is the responsibility of aviation to further the combination of strength and intelligence...
...worldling" TIME meant that Scientist Hawkesworth, like all astronomers, was earth-bound in his observations of the universe, not that he was personally selfish or materialistic...
...Stuart Ney had actually been the Marshal of France. Amateur historians delved into the matter, wrote earnest monographs and pamphlets. Their explanation: Marshal Ney's firing squad was composed of his old comrades-in-arms. They put blank cartridges in their guns, smuggled him aboard a U. S.-bound ship at Bordeaux...
Lester Cohen was born 34 years ago in Chicago, wrote a novel of department-store life (Sweepings) which became a bestseller, then settled in Hollywood to write for the movies. He says in Two Worlds that after years of this work he set forth "bound for the beauty and wonder of the world, and a better understanding of our troubled, chaotic time." With his wife he went first to France, then to England, where he listened to debates in Parliament about fascism, then to Russia, Turkey, Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Since they traveled over conventional paths...