Word: erne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Briton who can explain muth to his countrymen about why this war started off so slowly (see p. 31), why the West ern Front was still so quiet last week, is a tall, thin officer of infantry in World War I: Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, 43, D. S. 0. V. C. Few weeks ago Captain Liddell Hart suffered a nervous break down, retired to the west of England, resigned his job as military expert for the august London Times...
...gang foreman, James Petrillo, who likes to be called "The Mussolini of Music," was born in 1892 on Chicago's slummy West Side. He spent a precarious childhood selling newspapers, running elevators up & down Loop buildings, driving a horse & cart, peddling crackerjack and peanuts on a North West ern Railroad train. Young Petrillo played the trumpet, but so badly that the only jobs he could get were at picnics. On this account he went into politics. He served three years as vice president of the Chicago Federation of Musicians before he became its president in 1922. Highest-priced labor...
...western North and South Dakota, east ern Montana and Wyoming, it looked as if there would be no crops at all. And the drought was getting steadily worse in Oklahoma, western Arkansas, northern Tennessee, southern Kentucky. The Government, declared the President, was ready to pour out unlimited amounts of WPA, AAA, Resettlement Administration and Surplus Commodities Corporation money to relieve stricken farmers...
...feverish audience that is utterly wearied of the sounding of one string upon the harp of God! . . ." At this plea for moderation, the Methodist delegates laughed and applauded. They also applauded a resounding denunciation of "the forces of inebriety" and a reference to the projected reunion of North- ern, Southern and Protestant Methodist churches (TIME, Aug. 26). This the Columbus Conference made its first order of business. Despite objections from liberals against segregating Negroes in a separate Methodist conference, the unification plan was ratified, 470-10-83. Hailed by some Methodists as nothing less than "dramatic," this merger now awaits...
...tiny that it must be viewed through a jeweler's eyepiece and tell what kind of atoms are dancing in a star trillions of miles away. Thus has astronomy advanced since Galileo first glimpsed the four big satellites of Jupiter and wondered what they were. The mod ern art of splitting up light into its com ponent colors, which disclose the chemical nature of the source, depends on a little thing called the diffraction grating. This is a plate of glass or metal with 15,000 to 30.000 parallel lines accurately ruled across every inch of it. Each line...