Word: marked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...literary as well as the geographical sense there are still wide open spaces in the U. S. Such trail-blazing authors as James Fenimore Cooper. Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte have yet to be crowded out of their frontier freeholds, may still be said to have squatters' rights. But last week Author Grace Zaring Stone trespassed on Cooper's hunting-ground, and if she makes many more such successful expeditions, Cooper's title to the land will be considerably shaken. The Cold Journey may not prove as popular as The Last of the Mohicans (it will never...
...pages Frank R. Kent, famed Washington columnist of the independent Baltimore Sun, has collected his running commentary on the New Deal. He does not like it. But he thinks the new policies must run their course. There is no road back. No gloomy Republican of the Mark Sullivan stamp, he finds himself frequently speaking through a hypothetical character called "the old-fashioned Democrat." "Where are we going?" he asks. Old-Fashioned Democrat answers by being reminded of Columbus: "He did not know where he was going when he started. He did not know where he was when he got there...
...Twenty-five years ago, Mark Arie of Champaign, Ill., paid $50 for a shotgun. Having won $50,000 in cash prizes and trophies valued at $150,000, he used it again last week to become doubles target champion and champion-of-State-champions, with 197 targets out of 200, against 34 other State titleholders...
...JAPAN?Seiji Noma?Vanguard ($3.75). Dai Nippon Yubenkai Kodansha, founded in 1910, is the leading publishing house of Japan. Its nine magazines comprise some 70% of the total Nipponese output. In book publishing it is the birthplace of mass production in Japan with best sellers passing the million mark. Founder Seiji Noma has been compared to Newnes, Northcliffe, Hearst, Curtis. Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank, it reveals...
...dedicated to the ideals of Liberty, Democracy, Education, Equality, Progress, Peace. Pointing out the discrepancies between ideals and practice. Lewis Corey is, for a Marxian, generous in his estimation of its real accomplishments. To him, the impending "American Revolution" is consistent with U. S. traditions. It will mark the triumph of the socialism of Marx and Lenin...