Word: houghtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PORTRAITS FROM LIFE-Ford Madox Ford-Houghton Mifflin ($3). Memoirs of eleven famed Edwardian authors on whom Author Ford, wearing his gently smiling expression, has been sharpening his anecdotal claws these many years. On H. G. Wells he uses his teeth as well, because, charges Ford, Wells is the man who has trained the world into a defeatist resignation to the horrors of the Machine...
...scored by a revision of the Binet-Simon test, called the Stanford-Binet and published by Dr. Lewis Madison Terman in 1916. Last week Stanford University's spry, 60-year-old Psychologist Terman and his associate, Dr. Maude Amanda Merrill, were guiding through the presses of Houghton Mifflin Co. the first revision ever made in this prime educational tool...
SPANISH PRELUDE - Jenny Ballou- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Sensitive, multi-charactered story portraying the intellectual and middle-class Spanish acquaintances of an American woman during the three years preceding King Alfonso's overthrow...
...buggy-makers left in the U. S. and only three besides Huntingburg are important. J. G. Smith & Sons of Barnesville, Ga. who claim to be the only buggymen below the Mason & Dixon line, do much business in Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana. Their business is up 50% this year. Houghton Sulky Co. of Marion, Ohio, specializes in horse-show buggies and racing sulkies, do not make ordinary "top" buggies. Unwilling to reveal figures, Houghton last week confirmed the current boom. Biggest exclusive buggy-maker is Standard Vehicle Co. of Lawrenceburg, Ind. Almost ruined by the recent Ohio River floods...
GREY OF FALLODON-George Macauley Trevelyan-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Tender biography of England's Liberal Foreign Minister (1905-1916) whose vocations were birds and fishing, his avocation, politics...