Word: dust
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Social Student is spectacled, enthusiastic Professor Harold 0. Rugg, of Columbia University's Teachers College. Twenty years ago Professor Rugg (Dartmouth '08) decided that history and geography, as taught in the schools, were dust-dry, had little to do with the price of eggs. An engineer, he began to study what a citizen needed to know. Eventually he designed a series of textbooks intended to give useful answers to useful questions. He undid the old packages (i.e., history, geography), dumped all his information in one basket-social studies...
...with a bare bodkin?". Vag tapped again--still no sound. Vag tried the door and to his amazement it was unlocked. Warily he pushed it open, and there was an eerie creak of rusty hinges. The room was almost empty except for a case of ancient folios thick with dust. In the middle of the floor lay a strangely familiar volume--a decrepit volume. It lay open, and to Vag it said...
...Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through to the final curtain...
...what they thought was a fair estimate of Soviet Russia's gold reserve. Before World War I Russia ranked fourth among the gold-producing countries of the world. She has vast deposits in the Ural and Caucasus and in Siberia. But according to the Paris experts, the dust has not been panning out the way it should have. As a "considerable over-estimate," the Frenchmen thought the Soviet might have in ready gold 21,000,000 ounces ($760,000,000)-only four times as much as the U. S. produces in a single year; at present less than...
Divorced. Grant Wood, 47, earthy U. S. artist whose neat, ironic brush has stirred up many a dust storm (American Gothic, Daughters of Revolution, TIME, Sept. 5, 1932); from Sarah Sherman Wood, 55; in Iowa City, Iowa. Grounds: inhuman treatment...