Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago, where 3,500 alumni began an eight-day term of lectures, discussions and movies, interspersed with the usual dinners, excursions and shenanigans. Chicago's alumni school, whose purpose is not to stuff but to stimulate, had as lecturers President Robert Maynard Hutchins, U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold, NLRB's Chairman J. Warren Madden, University professors. Alumni heard lectures on What Is Progressive Education? Can Man Make Good? What Can We Expect from the New Pope...
...Ohio State, 1,000 alumni this week gathered for a similar series of lectures on the general theme: What Does the Future Hold? Some subjects: Propaganda Analysis (by Alumnus Clyde R. Miller, 11), Restoration Saints and Modern Sinners, Tomorrow's Newspaper, Movies of a Cow's Stomach...
...however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University of Alaska. One day last week Cap Lathrop sailed out of Puget Sound for Alaska again, to launch the latest and most ambitious enterprise of his career, the Midnight Sun Broadcasting...
...A.S.H. after his name meant "Author of Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished...
...Wheat and Soldiers was not written to order for the Japanese Ministry of War, there is nothing in its 191-page saga devout patriotism to make samurai over in their urns. Anti-war in general, is certainly not anti-Japanese-war-in-China. Announcement that 500,000 have been sold is a backhanded way saying that Japanese are behind army. Sole resemblance to All Quiet the Western Front is that both books are about fighting...