Word: general
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Annie J. Cannon, the University's famous woman astronomer, will be speaker at the opening general meeting tonight at the Observatory at 8:15 o'clock. She will discuss her recent tour of the observatories of the western United States...
WASHINGTON--Martin Chancey, secretary of the local unit of the Communist Party, asked Attorney-General Frank Murphy today to investigate the "lawless, terroristic and dishonest," actions of the Dies Committee...
...quiet logical move toward the complete organization of the tutoring system was evinced. It is highly improbable that a surge of new customers to the remaining schools will result, but rather the nature of these two business closings shows an already discernible trend away from the cram parlors in general and, when help is really needed, toward the University's own bureau of supervision...
...fillip of "poetry" do so with a weather eye on the height of their own and their subscribers' brows. Low-brow verse gets published in low-brow magazines and highbrow verse in high-brow magazines. But whether high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their lives...
Countrified. Weaver's citified verse offers the general public food for self-pity. The countrified verse of Maine-coast-man Robert P. Tristram Coffin offers it food for self-satisfaction. Those who read verse because they have an appetite for such food will enjoy reading Coffin's Collected Poems. Into the book Coffin has put some 250 lyrics and ballads, previously published in eight books and in 46 low, high-and medium-browed magazines; and he gives them a dramatic send-off with a 13-page preface in which he modestly blesses himself for being a good poet...