Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Learoyd Boyden, principal of Deerfield Academy, Dearfield, Mass., since 1902. Doctor of Laws. Cliation: "Schoolmaster and public spirited cliinen for forty-five years the principal of an academy made famous by his labors...
William Francis Gibbs '10, vice president of Gibbs and Cox Inc., naval architects, who was given the American Design award for making possible mass production of ships through standardization of parts. Doctor of Science. Citation: "Naval architect and marine engineer, in the forefront of his profession; the engineer of all manner of new craft for peace...
...disarmament was really taken seriously. The Washington Conference, held in the fall of the year was the springboard, and the CRIMSON outdid itself in the pursuit of this objective. A series of 20 special articles examined this and other topics connected with world peace; countless editorials supported the position. Mass meetings were held in the Union and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart 'so said that Americans were learning that isolationism was impossible. But the CRIMSON, wise far beyond its knowing said "we may not necessarily agree . . . that Germany is preparing for a war of revenge . . . but when an export (General Taufflieb...
...month after it started, the great wave of price-cutting calmed down last week into a tiny ripple. Most of the merchants in Newburyport, Mass., who had started it all, abandoned their program to refund 10% on all retail purchases. So did Newburyport's imitators across the nation. Merchants called it all a mistake. In the last eddy of the wave kicked up by Newburyport, a grocer in Byington, Tenn. posted invoice prices on his goods, let his customers decide the markup. They decided 20%, which was his normal markup, was about right. His business improved. But by & large...
Miss Athas is a New Englander herself, from Gloucester, Mass. She attended high school in Chapel Hill, N.C. with the two daughters of Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith, and got encouragement in her writing from their mother. The Weather of the Heart has its faults, mostly structural and obviously resulting from lack of experience. They will be forgiven easily by readers whose weary eyes have lately seen a lot of old formulas passing as new fiction...