Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yesterday's reading, Spender first spoke briefly on the factors influencing his generation. He said that the chief stimuli on such poets as Auden, McNeice, and himself were the economic depression and the challenge of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land...
...started in the winter of 1938 when the International Student Association organized to welcome and assist the until then unheeded foreign students studying in the vicinity. Lawrence Mead and his wife, who had spent many years in China and understood the problems of life in a new land, became directors and added the humanistic touch that now flows through all personal interrelations at the Center. In addition to aiding new arrivals by informing them on such matters as the perfect propriety of American girls who date without chaperons, the Meads also lend guidance on problems that might cause an experienced...
...Across the land this summer, man was making it rain...
...Motley, who is already being spoken of as a more devastating line-plunger than Army's "Doc" Blanchard. He collected a great pass-catching end (Mac Speedie) from the University of Utah, a great punter ("Horse" Gillom) from Massillon (Ohio) High School, the best place-kicker in the land (Lou Groza), who never played varsity at any college. The only big-time college hero on his squad is his passer, trigger-armed Otto Graham, late of Northwestern...
...spinster named Harriet Monroe. She spent weeks in the Chicago Public Library, reading up on contemporary British and American poets. Then she wrote letters to the ones who passed her muster, inviting them to join in starting a magazine to "give the art of poetry a voice in the land. . . ." The replies were enthusiastic; Amy Lowell sent a check for $25, and Ezra Pound (then in London) agreed to become Poetry's first, unsalaried foreign editor. Harriet Monroe knocked on wealthy Chicago doors (Samuel Insull, Cyrus McCormick, Charles Dawes), soon begged enough money to start...