Word: makers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very excellent method for eliminating students who are not as limited as the question-maker in their reaction to a generous subject. To produce failures by this process is to put a great indignity upon youth and start some very unnecessary and unfortunate revulsion's which will impair his strength in vital places and rob him of the whole value of what might have been highly nutritive. And there are enough specialists--people of linear dimension. Colleges should produce these only incidentally, and make more three dimensional people out of its pupils...
...ruddy, stalwart Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 66, of Westerham, Kent, native of India, veteran army officer and diplomatist, treaty-maker with Tibet (1904)*, committee head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave...
Amoskeag, located in Manchester, N. H., is the world's largest maker of cotton cloth, operating 20,000 looms. When the present period of irregularity descended on the textile industry, Amoskeag reflected it with declined earnings climaxing in a deficit and no dividend in 1928. During this time Textiler Dumaine sifted and shifted the Amoskeag personnel, insisted upon basing production on unfilled orders. Last week, while most textile companies gloomily faced an even sharper depression, Amoskeag startled everyone by declaring a dividend of $1 per share and a 5% of salary bonus to its 10,000 employes...
...latter provision seems to me to lift cider and light wines home-made for home use out of the one-half of i % definition and to apply the test of intoxication in fact. ... If they can be lawfully made, they can be lawfully possessed in the home of the maker. Whether this language can be stretched to cover home-brew non-intoxicating in fact is another question but clearly the making of home-made light wines and ciders is not prohibited. . . . Perhaps the act needs clarification on the question of homebrew, although nobody has ever been convicted for making...
...When Professor Willis predicted another earthquake for Southern California the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly) excited by a rival geologist, Robert Thomas Hill, assailed the prediction as "the incondite ravings of a mischief maker . . . God must have tipped him off." (TIME...