Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover: sent greetings to the 20th annual National Safety Congress at Chicago; spoke over the radio to the International Association .of Chiefs of Police at St. Petersburg, Fla.; received a petition pleading for disarmament from a delegation of the Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, headed by Jane Addams of Chicago's charitarian Hull House; received and was photographed with a delegation of the National Council of Catholic Women; agreed to open the loth Olympic Games at Los Angeles, July 30, which he may take in his stride while campaigning in the West for a second term...
...late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected Poems, he took his wife and three children (John, Jane, Joan) to live permanently in England. Nearsighted, silent, excruciatingly shy, Conrad Aiken is a serious, hard-working poet who occasionally ventures into prose. To a fellow-passenger on a liner who asked Aiken: "What's your line?" he replied: "Blank verse!" Aiken's ambition is to write...
...sight of life he liked it so little he lay very still. There was never any more faltering. An undaunted mind-that was Hardy. He was a great man. That was his hard fate." ¶ Last week from England's Lake District came another literary incident. A Mrs. Jane Jefferson of Youngstown, Ohio, went to Cockermouth to see the birthplace of Poet William Wordsworth. She looked all over town, finally got some one to point out the unmarked house, now a doctor's office. "Young man," cried she, "if William Wordsworth had been born in Youngstown we would...
...children, David Turner, 13, of Montgomery, Ala., and Jane Dickinson, 14, of Keene, N. H., had learned more than the others. For doing so, each got a wrist watch. The rest had learned enough to make the original sponsors of the test, 25 public school pedagogs from large U. S. cities, pass a resolution: "We endorse the experiment in sound pictures and urge that additional facilities be supplied for such instructional methods as rapidly as possible...
...whose own education had been meagre, it has today a fine military Tudor-Gothic plant and 677 cadets?twice as many as any other U. S. private military school. On the wooded shores of Lake Maxinkuckee it stands, hard by the farm where Founder Culver met and married Emily Jane Hand in 1864. He died in 1897, aged 57, but his wife had borne him five sons to carry on the work. Mrs. Culver, in whose memory the new scholarships are named, watched over the school until her death in 1922. was the donor of many a scholarship prize medal...