Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inspirational contact between instructor and student, in undergraduate work, but before the system can achieve any true educational success the constraining of feet of the divisional examinations must be removed. With them constantly in sight, literature becomes for teacher and taught a mere field of cut and dried grain that must be hastily gathered in before the storm. It is unappetizing but necessary fodder--not a thing of beauty, allve, and to be enjoyed for its own sake...
...chute between cliffs, trees, coal tupples and culm banks into Wilkes-Barre,? on the Susquehanna River. And so onward, between Senaco and Cayuga of the Finger Lakes in Central New York?trees, orchards, vineyards, farms. Due west of the lakes is Buffalo, great transshipping port for coal and grain...
...face, as he grew older, became more hawklike, sorrowful and astute. Not in feature but in its remote, speculative expression it resembled the face of a man who has worked in country fields, who has grown wise in bringing, to life out of darkness, many harvests of bitter, golden grain...
Felix Nawn, conscientious, silent, inarticulate, is reminiscent of Gene Stratton Porter's Jaspar in "The White Flag." He is a sincere man, but haplessly imbued with a grain of deceit which ultimately leads him to his grave. "Poor, kind, bungling, ineffectual Felix"! He is indispensable, for had he not had the power to draw from Sheilah Miller her unreasoning compassion, there would have been no conflict and no story. These protagonists are direct antitheses not only socially, but intellectually and spiritually...
...recently legalized death sentence for proven corruption in a Soviet official was applied, last week, for the first time in the case of Director Poliakov of the State Bank Grain Department and an assistant, M. Telesnin. Their crime: granting concessions to private businessmen in return for fat bribes...