Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most amazing of President Roosevelt's accomplishments in office has been the all-time highwater mark to which he has brought and held his personal popularity. Without this popularity he would never have been able to execute all his policies. Last week, ever watchful of popular support, the President had one more evidence that it is not yet waning: students of Valley Forge Military Academy at Wayne, Pa., holding a poll on the greatest U. S. President, voted 43 for Abraham Lincoln, 44 for George Washington, 202 for Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...children get the croup. In the autumn Ollie is sent away to town. In the winter Doris flirts with Stan while his barn burns. The spring is a peaceful season. Doris is about to go away with Stan, George Shaw's wife starts to have another baby and Mark Shaw (David Landau) declines an invitation to the movies from his daughter Jen. Before summer comes again, Jen and Stan are in the buggy, on their way to church...
...Chicago by Methodist Rev. Philip J. Hasenstab and Rev. Henry S. Rutherford, who alternate in carrying their work throughout the Midwest. In San Francisco Lutheran Pastor Charles Jaetner conducts services twice a month. Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Atlanta may attend special deaf-mute services every Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. In Dallas deaf-mutes meet weekly in the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Clara E. Hemphill is the leading sign language teacher of that city. Her great concern is to persuade Episcopalians to provide mute services because she believes the austere ritual of that church is especially...
...frozen carbon dioxide, popularly called "dry ice." The temperature inside was somewhere between - 100° and - 110° F. The spectators waited to see a black-browed young daredevil risk his life for Science by get ting into that icebox and staying there for half an hour. Daredevil Mark Edward Ridge wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum in twelve alternating layers. To protect himself from deadly fumes emanating from the ice he also...
Events of the last few years have to some extent broken down the apathetic attitude of American students toward politics. This is unquestionably a desirable process, and may with benefit proceed a great deal further. At the same time, it is well to mark off the field for undergraduate action in politics. National youth movements have been organized in Italy, Germany, and Russia with a definite place in the political scheme. Students exert great political influence in Latin countries, and Cuban students were at one period dictators to the administration. There are those who would have American students take...