Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brothers died not long after the firm was moved in 1879 from Boston to Chicago, where its headquarters have been ever since. Prospering exceedingly, ''E. B." Butler lived until 1928, sinking some of his catalog millions into philanthropies like Jane Addams' Hull House and the Glenwood Manual Training School south of Chicago. He fathered the enabling legislation that promoted Chicago's Lake Front development. But before he died, old "E. B." reluctantly admitted that the cherished catalog that had made him rich could no longer serve as a wholesaler's sole support...
...little manual on modern Russian literature, published about ten years ago, Prince D. H. Misky describes Solovyev as "the greatest name in Russian Philosophy . . . he was the first Russian to combine strict religious orthodoxy with a political liberalism of a European type." At least two other works of Solovyev's have been translated into English: "The Justification of the Good" and "Three Conservations on War, Peace, and the End of History," but the present translation of his essay on Plato, which by the way has been done completely by Richard Gill, will introduce the philosopher to the English-speaking public...
...black steel desk, cream walls, tan curtains, grey rug, a cosmic-ray counter clicking away in a corner; or in the laboratories just outside where he has $50,000 worth of equipment for his own researches. He does much of his own experimental work, and his assistants admire his manual skill. He is reputed the best scientific glassblower in the Midwest...
...Worse, "a Manual of Christian Matrimony,''* by Rev. Dr. Walter Arthur Maier, famed Lutheran, editor of The Walther League Messenger, professor at Concordia Seminary. Chubby, dimple-chinned Dr. Maier, 42, is a harddriving, popular teacher, a hard-working editor who dictates daily to three secretaries. Frequently on the platform or before the microphone, he is proud to be called Bryanesque, speaks with a slight German accent, likes to tell how, as an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a $100 public speaking prize which he had to go to court to collect, because his scholarship stipulated...
Conditions under which Jews may or may not work in Germany under the Nurnberg Laws will be laid down later by the Realmleader in fresh decrees. Thus far all indigent Jews on the Nazi dole are compelled to do strictly "manual work," were to be seen street-making in the Capital last week, jibed and jeered at by passing Germans...