Word: diversionism
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He migrated to Denver, where as a friendly gesture he established Agnes Memorial tuberculosis sanatorium in memory of his first wife. For diversion he took an interest in minor public enterprises. In 1913 he was president of Colorado Taxpayers' Protective League-in 1917, chairman of the Mountain division of...
A greystone tower with a suggestion of Gothic ornament, it is named for Forty-Niner William ("California") Taylor who chose the longest way to the gold fields- around the Horn. In 1849 that route was safely traversed by 108 vessels. Most of the passengers sought gold. Few of them became...
The University Film Foundation has proved its scope to be practically without bounds. All sorts of pictures, from those of natives and animals of far-off and, consequently, romantic lands to the activities of normal Harvard undergraduates have been under the focus of the lenses of the Foundation. It is...
Curiously enough, both Mr. Simpson and Mr. McKinlay were born in Scotland in 1874, Mr. Simpson at Glasgow, Mr. McKinlay some 20 miles away, at Greenock. But Scot McKinlay did not meet Scot Simpson until, in 1891, the latter came to work as an office boy for Founder Field in...
At that time a movement was animating worldwide Jewry to teach their young profitable occupations. Farming seemed among the best of these in the U. S. because Jewish immigrants were flooding into the cities, an increase in Jewish farming would divert some of the population from the teeming, unhealthy ghettos...