Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissars. It has charge of all factories, mines, mills, is a super-Department of Commerce. Its chairman, Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, is to Josef Stalin as Herbert Hoover was to Presidents Harding & Coolidge. Last week Stalin's Hoover took charge of the new subdivision of Heavy Industry (coal, iron, steel, et al.) and the Soviet press spent much time explaining that he lost no prestige by so doing...
...parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary, and Calvary's Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., who gave a demonstration of "primitive Christian practice" for the bishops of the 50th-triennial Episcopal convention in Denver last autumn (TIME, Sept. 2 et...
Because New College is practical in purpose, it is likely to come in for criticism from opponents of the pragmatic curriculum (courses in foremanship, machine design, journalism, et al.) which Columbia has widely publicized. The theory upon which New College is based-that education is practical training for useful pursuits-was violently anathematized a year ago, and again last month, by Dr. Abraham Flexner (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930; Dec. 14). From another educator last week came similar but more polite strictures in The Theory of Education in the U. S., by Albert Jay Nock (Harcourt, Brace: $2). But Dr. Nock...
...Intervals), sister of the late Poet Elinor Wylie ; from Edward Davison Curtis; in Reno, Nev. Auinor Hoyt is a sister of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who, twice married to Jeanne Bankhead (sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead), prankishly jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...
POETRY - John Masefield - Macmillan John Collings Squire once defined poetry as the writings of Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, et al. In the present essay, lately (Oct. 15) delivered as a lecture at the Queen's Hall in London, John Mase field follows much the same track, defines poetry by quoting it. He is less nationalistic than Editor Squire; Shakespeare, Dante, Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which...