Word: hewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baltic Deputy (Lenfilm). A universally noble cinema theme, of which the most prominent U. S. exponent is Paul Muni (Zola, Pasteur), is the life story of the great-hearted man of science. To be worth his epitaph in Russia, however, a scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema...
Quoting from Mr. Agassiz: "What the world most needs today is the wisdom to apply its knowledge wisely; in the sane realization and full acceptance of the fact that Nature is 'a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them...
...Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, which ends with Waterloo; Artist Johnson added Babylon, Crecy, Gettysburg, the First Marne; introduced such characters as Richard Coeur de Lion, Columbus, Ferdinand and Isabella. Cyrus of the Persians besieges Babylon (538 B. C.) At Marathon (490 B. C.) Miltiades and the Greeks hew down the Persians. Alexander the Great gestures imperially to his invincible Macedonians. The Roman Legions' S.P.Q.R. banner rises in triumph over Hasdrubal. Joan of Arc, whose face resembles that of Whitney Museum Director Juliana Force, lifts her sword over the English at Orleans (1429). Charles Martel, William the Conqueror...
...discard. Newshawks at the White House knew it when John Lewis stomped grimly into the President's office next day. And correspondents in the press box at the Democratic Convention last week knew it when John Lewis, hospitably received by the Resolutions Committee, was presumably permitted to hew out the labor plank of the platform on which Franklin Roosevelt will stand for reelection. Significantly the plank went out of its way to take specific note of labor problems which interest John L. Lewis. By last week, newshawks widely concluded, John L. Lewis had entered the charmed circle of Politicians...
Nucleus of the company was formed in 1853 by the two brothers Berkey, Julius and William, one of whom had taken an afternoon off from logging in the Grand River to hew himself a table. Twenty years later the company was incorporated with $500,000 capital, and the great period of Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden...