Word: hobart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leaned back in his rocker, his bald head resting against the white embroidered antimacassar. His shirt was open at the neck, his belt loosened, his black shoes unlaced. His grey eyes peered through the windows of his comfortable house to the shade trees on Washington's drowsy Hobart Street. Now, he thought, there would be time to dabble in the tiny home laboratory, to spade and weed the small backyard garden...
...High Church Archbishop's defense last week came Low Church Viscount Caldecote (Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip), England's Lord Chief Justice, a former Lord Chancellor. He noted that the financial arrangement between Dr. Garbett and the ecclesiastical commissioners (authorized by the Church Assembly last March) lets the commissioners foot some of York's official bills. Why not? said the Viscount. He thought the attacks on the Archbishop "ill judged and unfair," found the "perfectly legitimate arrangement . . . would . . . relieve him of considerable personal bookkeeping...
...Probably the biggest privately owned egg and poultry business in the U.S. is run by tall, large-boned, greying Hobart Creighton, 46, of Warsaw, Ind. Unable to raise hogs successfully, Eggman Creighton started with chickens 18 years ago. He owned 38 acres of land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
Fact & Fancy. In Hobart, Okla., 76-year-old J. S. Mayabb shot his wife dead, explained to police that she kept tuning the radio to programs he detested...
Just how little the questionnaire did prove, and its deficiencies by every psychological standard, is described succinctly by O. Hobart Mowrer, of the department of Psychology, assistant professor of Education...