Word: hildebrand
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...wind-bitten old woman, her brow furrowed beneath her black kerchief, kept her eyes on her hands as she knitted. "I go," said Mrs. Helen Hildebrand, "because most of my family is going." At 75 she was leaving Canada, with six of her eight children, 51 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. Last week, in Winnipeg, they joined 1,608 other Mennonites (total in Canada: 111,380) who were bound for sparsely populated Paraguay, where Mennonites from Europe have already settled to lead their strict way of life...
...California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than a place of compulsion. It is no place for a student of unformed character and uncertain purpose. [But] the presence of the mob need not seriously interfere with the education of the gifted...
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli the Papal Secretary of State, seems to be the popular guess as successor to Plus. Just what kind of a Pope he will make remains to be seen--it may be too much to hope for a Hildebrand--but it is easily possible that he will outshine the dying pontiff, whose best known accomplishment at his time seems to be the encyclical "Casti Connubil", which weightly discusses short skirts, lip rouge, and the like...
...their balance, to perform simple turns, to stop without falling down. In California, sale of ski equipment is this year 100% above last. In Hollywood, characters like Charlie Chaplin, Helen Twelvetrees, Joel McCrea, Mrs. Frank Borzage, have become skiing devotees. At the University of California, three years ago, Alexander Hildebrand, son of Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand, was the only competent practicing skier. Now not only California, but University of California at Los Angeles. Southern California and Nevada have ski teams, plan to compete with those of the University of Washington which have long been among the ablest...
...male leads will be taken by Harvard men. James H. Goulder '36 will play the part of King Hildebrand; Joseph F. Lautner '22, now in the Music department, Hilarion; William Shelmerdine '37, Cyril; John C. Cort '35, Florian; Thomas O. Jones '38, Arac; William G. Cahan '35, Guron; and Herbert S. Wallis '36, Seynthius...