Word: ellsworth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high schools teach many things, but in most of them one subject is taboo -sex education. When Ellsworth B. Buck, a New York City School Commissioner, tried to break the taboo this year, he failed (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week the advocates of sex education tried again. This time they had the U. S. Government behind them...
...Lanky Ellsworth Vines, 28, of Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20-18; in the movie set setting of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, at Beverly Hills, Calif. Star attraction of the tournament was greying, still garrulous Bill Tilden, who, in his first appearance on a U. S. tennis court in almost three years, demonstrated that he still has the most formidable...
...smart young men who prowled around among the aviation industry's crack-ups in 1932, looking for a wreck to repair and fly, was Harvardman Robert Ellsworth Gross. After a venture in 1928 with Stearman Aircraft Corp. (which he sold to United Aircraft and Transport Corp. within a year after he bought it) and another with Viking Aircraft, which had a not-so-happy ending in the 1929 crash, he had plenty of ambition but little money in his pocket when he learned that Lockheed was for sale...
...sent by Congress, sighted its white peaks, declared it to be a continental land mass. To Palmer Land from the tip of South America is only 575 nautical miles. Political argument is that the million-square-mile sector explored by U. S. visitors from Palmer to Byrd (and Lincoln Ellsworth) should be claimed in toto, instead of in spots, brought within the Monroe Doctrine's sphere, before Germany or another power moves in. According to Admiral Byrd: "No foreign expedition has so much as looked upon [it]. . . . We have penetrated it ... lived in it ... built...
...Edith Ellsworth Kinsley has searched the Brontë novels and poems for the character of Branwell and her technique in presenting Branwell's biography is to change the fictional names in autobiographical passages to the real names, juggle tenses, link wholesale quotations in chronological order. Because one Brontë is as inconceivable as one Dionne, she has found herself as much enmeshed in the sisters' patterns as in Branwell...