Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sanctity of the game are being heard here and there throughout the country with perhaps increasing strength. Princeton alumni are dismayed by the sad record of this year's team, but the undergraduates display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies. In a current film, "Touchdown," the central figure is an ambitious...
...record of Playwright O'Neill easily establishes him as the nation's greatest. The tom-tom which thudded through The Emperor Jones (1920) sounded a new pulse on the U. S. stage. With Beyond the Horizon (1919), Anna Christie (1921) and Strange Interlude (1929) he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize. His published works number 28. If you would like a copy of Thirst & Other One-Act Plays, his first printed volume, it will cost...
...Streets of New York, or Poverty Is No Crime. "It is a gloomy moment in history. In France the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertainty. Russia hangs as usual like a cloud dark and silent upon the horizon of Eu rope ; while all the energies, resources and influences of the British Empire are sorely tried, and are yet to be tried more sorely, in coping with the vast and deadly Indian insurrection. ... Of our own troubles no man can see the end. If we are only to lose money and by painful poverty be taught wisdom, no man need...
...infra-red use occurred last week on the roof of England's Croydon Airdrome control tower. There Paul Humphrey MacNeil of Huntington, L. I. showed his infra-red sextant. Navigators locate their position at sea or in the air by determining how high the sun is above the horizon. They "shoot the sun" through the eyepiece of a sextant. If the day is cloudy, they cannot see the sun, although they may know its approximate location. The MacNeil sextant is connected with an amplifier sensitive to the sun's infra-red rays. Those rays go through clouds...
...watch a parade of school children marching in a pageant to celebrate the 133rd year of Honduran independence from Spain. While the children, black and white, with happy faces and stiff white clothes, filed up the sunny street, a whirling havoc of wind was winding up over the southeastern horizon at a deliberate gait of 35 m. p. h. Then the wind increased in velocity, contorted, smashed into Belize at 2:30 p. m. with the vindictive shriek and speed of a racing plane...