Word: fosterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down rider on the Guffey-Vinson Coal Control Bill (TIME, April 12), passed (75 to 3) a resolution that began by declaring the Sit-Down "illegal and contrary to sound public policy" and continued with three times as many words condemning employers who use industrial spies, deny collective bargaining, foster company unions, engage in any other unfair labor practices as defined in the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Sent it to the House...
...historian of the Supreme Court. Harvard will be able to experiment in the next five years with a simple educational project which has many interesting angles and potentialities. In his tercentenary address last September President Conant suggested that one of the roles of the American university might be to foster a more general understanding and appreciation of our national culture. A few weeks ago, in his annual report, he announced that an opportunity for voluntary study in American history would soon be made available to undergraduates concentrating in other fields. The innovation, Mr. Conant explained, was equally intended to demonstrate...
...terms, applied to simple and yet characteristically American phenomena, have come such good Americanisms as gerrymander, stogie, greenback, O.K., and boondoggle. They have appeared when need arose for describing a practice or an article not described with sufficient patness by any word of the standard language. Now if Mr. Foster's Jimplecute takes hold and flourishes again, the national tongue may be enriched with a useful word for characterizing a thing once great, recently moribund, and once more reviving. There is real need for such a word. Phoenix is too classical a term, associated with the speech of political...
...said, "was a judgment of God against the turning of the Tabernacle into a theatre." This week a Zionite named Thomas Griffith, 19, confessed to setting the fire, with kerosene, "to get even with Overseer Voliva for failing to provide funds last summer to bury Griffith's foster-mother...
...Council is taking lead in the right direction. A faculty advisory board might be persuaded to offer its services for coaching, assisting in deciding winners, and generally playing wet nurse to the organization; and the minor outside debates to be held before local groups in Cambridge and Boston should foster the interest of many hitherto kept out of the picture. Better distribution of prize money is also a magnet of potential drawing power...