Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Later an attempt was made to represent those who had approved Mr. Fort's writings as esoteric literature as being followers of his ideas. I promptly and publicly repudiated any such implication ... in my column in the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Indeed, so far as I know, Benjamin DeCasseres is the only writer, aside from Mr. [Tiffany] Thayer, who has ever taken Fort seriously as a scientist. It is not likely that such persons as the late Justice Holmes, Lincoln Steffens and myself would entertain any such views as those implicit in Mr. Fort's writings...
...Revolution of 1911 by which Chinese overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. All last week the muddy highway from Nanking, China's capital, to Shanghai was crowded and at times choked with tractors dragging heavy artillery, huge motor trucks wallowing forward with munitions, pack trains of heavily-loaded beasts and column after column of Chinese soldiers slogging and sloshing forward. By Tuesday morning the offensive had yet to begin, and Chinese learned that the Premier had been obliged on Sunday to hand down sentences of death to officers guilty of "cowardice and military blunders" and "failure to offer heroic resistance...
...John Sommerfield, young English Leftist writer, got into Spain to join the Loyalist Army. Landing, he was rushed to Albacete ("when I saw the name on the station it meant nothing then"), where in an ex-nunnery the collection of foreign volunteers later to be known as the International Column were being drilled for combat. Here he had his first chance to look about him, see what his comrades-in-arms were like. They were an odd assortment...
...group, and indeed the whole army, had a spirit that for Sommerneld made up for deficiencies. Once, on a routemarch, they passed a column coming back from the front. "They were utterly worn out, unshaven, filthy, dressed in thin, bleached and tattered overalls, mostly wearing worn-out rope-soled canvas shoes through which their toes protruded: they had hardly any kit, were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from...
...Government 29 167 Government 7a 158 History 32a 150 Government 18 134 Government 3a 88 History 42 75 *These figures do not denote the 48 biggest courses in the college but rather are to show the biggest courses in different fields. For all other course enrollments over 50 see column...