Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago in Menard, Tex., a six-foot bricklayer named Ernest Elmer Baker got the notion that his religion, Pentecostalism, would cure Russian Godlessness. He would, he told his father, who gave him $1.40 to start on the trip, "preach the Gospel to the Bolshevik! under the Kremlin wall." After tramping without visas over Germany and Poland into Russia, Ernest Elmer Baker ended up in a detention camp at Minsk, where he was identified last summer by the second secretary of the U. S. Embassy at Moscow (TIME, July 1). Last week, with $100 raised by his family to repatriate...
...Ernest Hoffman will conduct the orchestra, officials of the ERA, sponsors of the program, announced...
...boycott came fortnight ago with the opening of the Worcester Art Museum's second biennial show of U. S. paintings. Because Director Francis Henry Taylor could not and would not pay rentals, the following well-known U. S. artists refused to submit pictures: Alexander Brook, Bernard Karfiol, Ernest Fiene, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Morris Kantor, Reginald Marsh, Katherine Schmidt, Arnold Blanch, Paul Cadmus, Niles Spencer, Henry Schnakenberg. Director Taylor freely admitted that the boycott badly handicapped his exhibition...
Scopolamine is a hypnotic drug made from henbane. As scopolamine hydrobromide solution it is widely used for inducing twilight sleep at childbirth, for quieting maniacs, drug addicts, alcoholics. Some years ago the late Dr. Robert Ernest House of Ferris, Tex. discovered, on administering scopolamine during an obstetrical case, that his patient was babbling things which she would not ordinarily have told. It seemed that the drug, by a selective action on the brain centres, inhibited a person's ability to withhold information from a questioner. In addition it was found that scopolamine, like actual hypnosis, might dredge up forgotten...
There is no present single editor of "The Nation," and has not been since Ernest Gruening resigned. Gruening succeeded Oswald Garrison Villard '93, who also resigned the post...