Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American civilization, another of the President's pets, defined practically in the American History course started last summer for both interested students and the general public. This idea has as its purpose the enrichening our civilization by giving impetus to native art and sciences, by bringing focus on the ideals of America, by nationalizing all sectional virtues and talents. This is a big order, rather creamy on the surface, but with a strong foundation; it is the sort of ideal worth supporting, and surely the extension of President Conant's national scholarships provides an excellent way of furthering...
...hour unabridged performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger, heard his favorite tenor, soulful-looking Eyvind Lahome (nè plain Victor Johnson of Birmingham, Ala.). Despite Der Fuhrer's frequent blasts against the U. S. in general, Herr Hitler applauds U. S. Citizen Lahome in particular as the ideal interpreter of Walther the Wagnerian knight, has awarded him the rare State title of Kammersänger. Freely Der Führer admitted last week that a dozen rasping speeches, plus hours standing with right arm rising and falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal...
Drainage of U. S. breeding lands had another effect. It left those regions completely vulnerable to floods and droughts. Flood and drought control measures now-being executed with CCC and WPA labor are, fortunately for sportsmen, ideal for restoring duck grounds, and vice versa. Principal engineering problem is to impound and regulate waters in rivers, lakes, marshes. Equally important is the planting of trees to help prevent erosion. Thus in the past three years 200 duck refuges have been created on previously useless land. Last year, for the first year in many, more ducks returned to the breeding grounds than...
...Nuys seized the opportunity given him by his Senatorial colleague to make it clear that if he was in the bad graces of Governor McNutt's successor, he still hoped to be in the good graces of the High Commissioner. Said he: "'Paul McNutt would make an ideal candidate and an ideal President...
...mosquitoes. He sank to one knee, and, with gestures, once more recited his famous poem, The Face on the Barroom Floor. Poet Titus said he now makes his living picking huckleberries. He wrote his famed poem in 1872 as the fifth episode of a seven-canto poem: The Ideal Soul. The scene was taken from a tavern in Jefferson, Ohio. There are now more than 1,000 versions that have sprung up anonymously...