Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful combination of commercialism and intellectualism, he was born 43 years ago into a distinguished family of London Jews, went to Oxford, was appointed an Army schoolmaster during the War when faulty eyesight barred him from active service. After the War, he learned the publishing business thoroughly with the Ernest Benn tradepapers, branched out on his own in 1927. First Gollancz book was John Van Druten's poignant public-school play, Young Woodley. First Gollancz success was another play of public-school heroics...
Others are Irving W. Bailey and Ralph H. Wetmore for one investigation; Kenneth T. Bainbridge, John C. Baker, Henry B. Bigelow, Percy W. Bridgman, Huntington Brown, Frank M. Carpenter, Arthur Casagrande, Phillip C. Rutledge, William B. Castle, Dana B. Durand, John T. Edsall, Louis C. Graton, Ernest B. Dane, Jr., Alden B. Greninger, Richmond L. Hawkins...
...days of its famed first president, Horace Mann (1853-59), Antioch College at Yellow Springs, Ohio, kept the world of education humming with new progressive ideas. To Antioch in 1920 went tall, baldish President Arthur Ernest Morgan with ideas even newer. President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from...
...horse with a muscular male draped on its back, one arm encircling another ZaSu-Pittsian female (see cut}. "There is no complicated message in this set," explained Artist Carroll as he put the finishing touches on his first big mural job, financed by a $5,000 gift from Ernest Kanzler & wife, sister of Mrs. Edsel Ford. "I had an idea, and I wanted to fill the spaces beautifully. I felt that people who live their lives among machinery like to escape from machinery, so I strove for a poetic idea and tried to bring to this room a feeling...
...University of Wisconsin has not yet forgotten the 38-to-3 licking which Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen inflicted on its football team in 1924. Still more difficult to forget is the fight between Football Coach Clarence Wiley Spears and Athletic Director Walter Ernest Meanwell, which ended last February in the dismissal of both (TIME, Feb. 24) and the threatened expulsion of Wisconsin from the Big Ten Conference. Last week Wisconsin hired young, handsome Harry Stuhldreher, quarterback of the Four Horsemen, as its athletic director and football coach, hoped he would soon make them forget both unhappy recollections...