Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that at sunset Brooklyn was in the lead ?by .002 of a point. The decisive factor was clearly what sort of playing would be done thereafter by these Robins, a gambling, reckless team of fine pitchers and erratic hitters, a team famed for last-minute spurts, for easy fellowship, popularity in its own town, and for its manager, Wilbert ("Uncle Robbie") Robinson, son of a butcher, who says: "It's the best ball team I ever managed...
...young unmarried landscape architects bent over drawing boards for four weeks, competing for this year's fellowship in landscape architecture at the American Academy in Rome. Last week they were lodged in Manhattan's Grand Central art galleries. A large wash drawing of a colonial country estate and a sheaf of complementary sketches won the prize for Richard Coolidge Murdock, Cornell graduate, son of Architect Harris Hunnewell Murdock of Manhattan. Among his perquisites will be $1,550 a year for three years, $500 travel money, an airy comfortable studio on the Janiculum in Rome, entree into Roman diplomatic society...
...committee of six led by John Llewellyn Lewis, president of United Mine Workers of America struggled in secret session with an operators' committee of six led by William W. Inglis of Glen Alden Coal Co. to negotiate a new agreement. Last week the two committees emerged in friendly fellowship with a new contract for hard-coal mining which each acclaimed as a guarantee of long industrial peace. The new agreement, to run until April 1, 1936, was a miners' victory. Mr. Lewis had won on two fundamental points: 1) no wage reductions; 2) the checkoff...
Young Mr. Hoover began tinkering with radio sets when he was 14. Never ceasing to be his hobby, radio became his career. He studied it at Stanford University, kept abreast of its progress during his graduate years at Harvard. After making a survey of aviation economics under a fellowship of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund, he perceived and took radio work for his own cross section of the air industry...
Cain and Artem (Amkino). This adaptation of one of Maxim Gorky's stories shows the fellowship of three people?a giant, a Jew, a fishmonger's wife?in a miserable town beside a Rus-sian river. Theirs is a fellowship of rejection: the giant does not know what to do with his strength; the woman is in disgrace because she is unfaithful to her husband and because she was a beggar when she married; everyone in the marketplace cheats the Jew and spits on him. The bond that draws slowly tighter, pulling them together, although not strong enough to keep...