Word: calling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voters in a state of theoretical suspense as to his candidacy.* He had let it be known that he was considering a return to private life to get rich, that he had many an offer to capitalize his personality. Last week he put all his offers aside, accepted the "call of public duty...
...where my people came from centuries ago. That invitation appealed to me; it touched something in my heart. I want to go to Sudbury where my people came from, and it occurs to me that what your society should do is to follow the line of that human call. If all the American descendants of all the Smiths, Joneses and Mac-Donalds came over they would all want to see where their beginnings were...
...command. Once, when they were crying for newspapers to sell during a Chicago strike, he ignored death threats, put his Tribunes on armed trucks, saw that every newsstand was supplied. In newsdealers' tiny offices, storerooms, back-alley loafing places, the name Max Annenberg became a great name. They call him "Max," he calls them by their first names. Once when a newsdealer died and left his business to a son who knew little about circulation, Max Annenberg stepped in, said he would be responsible for the efficiency of the son's organization. Other magazine publishers who, fearing incompetence...
...unobtrusively does Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University, Worcester, Mass., work on his study of the air's upper miles by means of rockets that to many a Clark student he is only a tradition. They call him the moon man, in the inaccurate belief that he is trying to reach the moon with his missiles. Last week, Tradition Goddard detonated very loudly. From a 40-ft. steel tower he fired his latest rocket, a huge steel cylinder 9 ft. long by 2½ ft. diameter. A new propellant sent it whizzing from the ground. It rose straight...
...exclaimed: "Think of it! In New York they call me a crazy Russian. . . . But I had complete control of myself. ... I seemed to be observing a drama rather than acting...