Word: cation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...College students and faculty last week indignantly organized commit tees, with slogans and verse campaigned to keep their college open, many an edu cator wondered whether Teachers College's pioneering influence over U. S. education was beginning to crack up. Progressive Edu cation Association's directors urged...
...last week the air waves below the commercial broadcast band crackled busily with the call "CQ Conn." For most of the 22,000 amateur radio operators enrolled in the American Radio Relay League were devoting the night to sentiment, reverting to old-time amateur relay methods for the dedi cation of the League's Maxim Memorial Station WIAW (Newington, Conn.). Al though most league members now have power enough to reach WIAW direct, they relayed their dedicatory messages through the stations of fellow members to recall early days before the development of the vacuum tube gave amateurs their present...
...balancing the credit side of the ledger of cities taken, provinces overrun, is the fact that Japanese control in the conquered territory is limited to rail-lines, roadways. Her battle front, supplied by overstretched, underprotected communi cation lines, is strung out three times as long as the Western Front during the World War. Behind these front lines Chinese guerrillas range with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked...
...gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside. The bal loon drifted southeast across Lake Erie, slowly rose to ten miles. Radio communi cation with the ground was fragmentary. Mrs. Piccard worried because she could not see the ground for clouds. Gas was valved and the balloon went down. As it flirted with the treetops, the Piccards donned football helmets. When the bag was snagged by tree branches, the gondola tore loose and dropped...
...written a biography on everyone's favorite subject : himself. Emil Ludwig was born Cohn 50 years ago, son of an eye-doctor in Breslau. Germany. When he was two years old his father furthered the family's fortunes by changing its name. Emil had a good edu cation and then went to work in his uncle's prosperous coal business. He did well, but a canker ate him: like many romantic boys he dreamed of being a great poet. When he fell in love (at sight) with a girl he called Diana, she encouraged his literary ambitions...