Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...requirement. Despite a bitter struggle, few people today dispute the wisdom of the step. No, the tide is sweeping on, and it is encouraging that it should. Latin's approaching defeat is not an insult to Caesar, but a salute to those educators who have definitely broadened the horizon of scholastic activity...
...Bernstein was soon to receive a rude jolt. The North Atlantic Freight Conference, meeting in Manhattan, refused him membership on the ground that he had violated an agreement by buying Red Star Line and thus entering the general cargo field. With threats of a freight rate war on the horizon, bewildered Arnold Bernstein cabled a protest to the U. S. Shipping Board Bureau, felt sure the new "misunderstanding" would be straightened out, planned to travel to the U. S. next month...
...Author is young (33) but considered by many a critic the most portentous cloud on the French literary horizon. A brilliant writer, he is no worker in enamel. His rare epigrams ("Youth is a religion which, in the long run, a man has always to retract") are the only tricolorations in his style. The world he writes of, in terms of savagery, torture, bloodshed, is too death-ridden to be neat...
...family," grinned Mrs. Roosevelt, "they never go beyond 21." With only a few of the family present-Elliott and his second wife and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger- President Franklin D. Roosevelt thus unostentatiously observed the end of his 53rd year of life. But out in the night over every horizon, wherever the U. S. flag flew, 4,000,000 of the President's fellow-citizens were marking his birthday with a huge celebration. Communities staged over 7,000 Birthday Balls, twice as many as last year when $1,000,000 was raised for Georgia Warm Springs Foundation. This year...
...Horizon, Cinematographer Clardy presented the life of a farm girl at a moment of crisis. One reel, almost without titles, tells the story of her efforts to marry the man she loves in spite of her father's opposition which keeps her chained to the farm. Okamoto's heroine was a Japanese girl making a doll as a birthday present for a friend. Pictorial values, backgrounds of the Japanese countryside in spring, and the delicate grain which Cinematographer Okamoto had achieved gave his film distinction. Both winners last week used 8 mm. film. Clardy's camera...