Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Mann faced the happy embarrassment of being wrong in a prediction he had made in 1930. The prediction (in A Sketch of My Life): "I have a feeling that I shall die at the same age as my mother [70], in 1945." At his Pacific Palisades home near Los Angeles, Author Mann looked fit despite a slight head cold, smoked his usual two cigars a day (with a liqueur on the side), smoked cigarets the rest of the time, walked his daily two miles "against the sea breeze," and was 500 pages along on a new novel which...
While collecting evidence against Her mann Goring, the war criminal, Allied investigators learned much about Goring, the scientist. Last week they told how he sometimes used Germany's helpless hu man guinea pigs...
...also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...
...Thomas Mann got a "come home" plea from the Berlin Radio, which recalled his early warnings against Naziism and concluded: "Today a new spirit sweeps through Germany. We need this new spirit. We need Thomas Mann. . . ." In Los Angeles the famed 70-year-old author, a U.S. citizen since 1940, gently turned down the invitation. "My home is here," he said. "After all, I am an old man and my greatest force for good is in my writing...
From 1870 to 1940, while the general population was increasing three-fold, the enrollment of high schools was being multiplied by about ninety times as a result of the movement toward universal education begun in a few states before the middle of the last century by Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and culminating at the end of the century in free public education in every state and free secondary education in most...