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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Opportunities for practical work to give first hand knowledge of the Social Sciences in action are being offered by the Social Science Research Council Economics, Social, Economic and Political history, Political science, Social psychology, Sociology, Cultural anthropology, Statistics, and Social Aspects of Related Disciplines are the subjects listed...
...putting in a summer's hard work, Farmer Tiflin lays out $5 to breed their own mare Nellie. Jody dedicates himself completely to Nellie's prenatal care, to giving his father more than his five-dollar's worth. When complications develop at the delivery, the hired hand kills Nellie with a hammer, and in a gory Cesarean delivers Jody his promised colt...
...Author. California-born (1900), big, blond, blue-eyed, slow-spoken John Ernest Steinbeck has been a farm hand, hod carrier, caretaker, chemist and painter's apprentice, itinerant newspaperman. At Stanford University off & on for six years, he treated it as a sort of public library where he read only what took his fancy: physics, biology, philosophy, history. Indifferent to most fiction, he thinks Thackeray passable, cannot stomach Proust because he "wrote his sickness, and I don't like sick writing." He is dead set against publicity, photographs, speeches, believes "they do you damage." Now living in Los Gatos...
...philosophy of Plato, from the Antigone of Sophocles to Al Smith; and who died, having known practically everybody and dabbled in everything, as recently as 1933. Tall, active, heavily-built, deeply bearded, John Jay Chapman had such a drastic sense of personal justice that he voluntarily burned his left hand (so badly that it had to be amputated) to expiate a blow he had struck a friend. His consciousness of civic responsibility was so strong that he went from Manhattan to Coatesville, Pa., on the anniversary of a lynching there, to conduct a public prayer meeting and so assuage...
...William Corcoran NIGHT AT HOGWALLOW- Theodore Strauss One of the scarcest forms of U. S. literature, the novelette until recently has been catalogued by U. S. publishers as a fiction, freak. To support this view, publishers could name on the fingers of one hand such lonely little albinos as Edith Wharton's Ethan Frame, Willa Gather's A Lost Lady, Christopher Morley's Where the Blue Begins. But since the appearance of such big white-headed boys as Anthony Adverse and Gone With The Wind, short novels have also climbed aboard best-seller lists (The Postman Always...