Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aphorisms like these are what made Edgar Watson Howe famed, first as editor of the Atchison, Kans. Globe, later, since his retirement 23 years ago, as editor and sole contributor to his magazine, E. W. Howe's Monthly, "Devoted to Indignation and Information." Last week, aged 80, Ed Howe composed a few more aphorisms on a new subject-his permanent and complete retirement. Said...
...Louis Mencken who announced his retirement from the American Mercury last October, Ed Howe was perpetually disgruntled. Born in Treaty, Ind., educated in public schools until he went into a print shop at 12, he began the expression of his general dissatisfaction in 1877 when he founded the Atchison Globe. After a day's work in the Globe office, starting at 7 o'clock in the morning and ending at 4 o'clock when the paper was "put to bed," Editor Howe spent his evenings writing a novel which he called The Story of a Country Town...
George S. Stuart '84, whose football experience had been gained as yachting editor of the Boston Globe, faced a future that hold little promise. Yale had won the previous seven games, and was expected to win the eighth. The Great Pudge Hoffelfinger was on the Yale line, and the team had rolled up large scores against early-season competition. Harvard's team was demoralized...
...Like a globe-trotting dowager, self-sufficient and completely self-assured, the Graf Zeppelin barged into and out of the U. S. last week on a schedule adjusted to suit herself. Having completed her 50th crossing of the Atlantic, she rolled up from Rio with 21 passengers including a 10-month-old baby, picked up Miami's Mayor Sewell, and made for Akron, Ohio. It was after dusk when Dr. Hugo Eckener pointed the ship's nose down through driving rain into the floodlights of the Good-year-Zeppelin dock at Akron. A sharp gust whipped her tail...
...experiment, which will give tone signals for ten minutes every hour. Ordinarily this apparatus is used for short distances only, but it is hoped that the sound may be deflected by certain strata in the high atmosphere and thus by following a series of taugents to the globe, reach the south polar region. If the expedition succeeds in picking up these signals it is possible that direct communication by voice may be established for a short period each day. For the present, aerial broadcasts will be sent to Buenos and relayed to New York...