Word: enlist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his own hands he shot and killed a traitorous chauffeur who was trying to kidnap him through the lines to Germany. He let his young son Leopold enlist as a private at the age of 13 so that he should know "what a serious business this is, being a king...
...Belgian extraction with a desire to excel in the art of dancing is portrayed in "Bolero." Raoul's existence depended entirely on his ambition, and he was so eager to reach the top that he fired his partners without feeling, and he deserted his night-club in Paris to enlist in the Belgian army in the World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left him when he confessed that...
...summer in Philadelphia's Midvale Steel plant decided him against a career in industrial chemistry. Back to Harvard he went for a Ph. D., a year of teaching. Then War came. War-hating son of war-hating parents, James Conant promptly marched to Washington to enlist in the ranks. A scientific friend called him a "blithering idiot," turned him over to the Chemical Warfare division in which he became a major at 25. He developed the process by which the A. E. F. was supplied with mustard-gas. Later, in "The Mousetrap," an old motor factory near Cleveland surrounded...
...advancing learning that it is possible to perpetuate it. When knowledge ceases to expand and develop, it becomes devitalized, degraded, and a matter of little importance to the present or future. The community loses interest, and the youth of the country responds to other challenges. Able young men enlist in an enterprise only if they are persuaded that they, too, may contribute by creative work. A zest for intellectual adventure should be the characteristic of every university. In the future as in the past, teachers must be scholars who are extending the frontiers of knowledge in every direction. I hope...
...good capitalist, has always disapproved of meddlesome governments. Last week U. S. newspaper readers rubbed their eyes to read that on a single day Emma Goldman came out for President Roosevelt and Henry Ford came out for the NRA. Jailed during the war for urging young men not to enlist, once sworn at as a "damn bitch of an anarchist.''* Emma Goldman was deported to Russia during Attorney General Mitchell Palmer's anti-Red drive of 1919. She spent years wandering across Europe. Few months ago, faded and old (64) but still defiant, she went to Toronto...