Word: ern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hilo (pop. 18,000) is the chief city of Hawaii proper. Ranching in the old-west ern style thrives on the grassy Hawaiian uplands. Near Hilo is the biggest Hawaiian ranch, "Sam" Parker's (cattle, sheep; $600,000 per annum income). Southward rises Kilauea, home of Goddess Pele. whose volcanic antics are kept under careful observation by Dr. Thomas Augustus Jaggar of the U. S. Geological Survey...
...into a net more than 200 ft. away. He is Ugo Zacchini. He and his brother served in the Italian artillery during the War. They wondered then whether a man could be hurled as a projectile. There was no time to find out. Back on their farm in north ern Italy after the Armistice, they experimented with six-ton cannon. One day six years ago Ugo crawled into the gun's muzzle. The brother "fired" it, a blast of compressed air plus a puff of gunpowder smoke to make it realistic. Ugo hurtled out and landed, unhurt...
Rector William G. Thayer of St. Mark's: "I have confidence that the mod ern schoolboy is going to be a real help in making things better...
...ern and southern states is being planned. After midyears, the season will be concluded with a number of local concerts, and a few short trips to New York, and other nearby cities. The season is brought to a close about the middle of March, enabling the players to take up new activities for the spring...
...reducing the governing aristocracy of the South to "a soothing but insalubrious myth." Another observation: City v. Country. "Stupendous pyramiding" of city populations has increased the differences and misunderstandings between urban and rural dwellers. Let city men improve their city government. And let country men let city men gov ern themselves their own way. While city and country reformers quarrel over moral and religious issues especially in the South, in dustrialists are quietly entrenching themselves "behind strong federal breastworks" of which the result will be "the inevitable tyran nies and incompetence of Federal bureaucracies." Let the South strengthen its state...