Word: broads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Youth Tell Their Story* is the voice of 13,528 Maryland youngsters (16 to 24) and the American Youth Commission. Director of the commission is broad-shouldered Homer Price Rainey, 42, who was a star halfback and pitcher at Austin College, Texas, became a college president at 31 (Franklin College, Franklin, Ind.) and headed Bucknell University for four years. In 1935 he and the commission set out to get to the bottom of the youth problem...
...link pin. That apparently accounted for the failure of one engine. Missing links to the disaster story were the failure of the other motor, and Pilot Brandon's failure to drop flares which would have shown him that the gully he crashed in was flanked by broad, roomy fields...
Married. Jeffery Farnol, 60, minor English novelist (The Amateur Gentleman, The Broad Highway) who was divorced last fall from U. S.-born Blanche Hawley Farnol; and Phyllis Mark Clarke, his daughter's former music teacher; in Exeter, England...
Sticking close to the ideal of giving the students a broad education, the College prohibits undergraduates from taking courses offered by the Graduate School of Engineering on the grounds they are of too practical a nature. The principle behind the rule is certainly sound, but in some cases exceptions might well be made. Every other department in the College opens its graduate courses to well qualified students, and Engineering Sciences should do the same, at least allowing honors candidates credit for one or two. In recent years two or three Undergraduates, having got ahead in their course requirements, have taken...
...engineering as his profession, but it has value in other ways. Concentration in Engineering Sciences is excellent preparation for architectural school and many be very valuable for men going into mining and into business, particularly the production and factory management ends. Many companies seek college men with a broad education which includes some engineering, since they wish to train their own men in specialized fields...