Word: moulds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Iowa landscapes look like photographs of landscapes modelled out of hard candy. The man-made detail-houses, pumps, fence-palings-are mathematically meticulous. The natural detail is stylized, as in a treetop indicated by a score of leaf-shapes that look as though turned out by a cookie-mould. His people have pioneer faces, gimlet eyes, snapping turtle-mouths, long vertical furrows down their faces. lowans like Grant Wood's hard, varnished paintings of themselves. They had conscientiously bought his early pictures. Trained at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Paris Julian Academic, Grant Wood worked...
...latest faculty report from Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn's experimental college at Wisconsin University contains a proposal that college, especially state institutions, should mould their curricula so as to train students to deal with the particular problems of the state in which they are located. Asserting the need for expert public servants, the report claims that the best way to impart the essential training is to use the local problems as a basis for a curriculum and to illustrate solutions with examples taken from history...
...Cathedral. But one doesn't really know Becket until he has left his histories and turned to another of the arts. A poet has left behind a picture of him as clear and brilliant as the painter's Richelieu. Tennyson shaped this solid Anglo-Saxon in the mould of flesh and blood...
...Ferriter '34, B. W. Huntington '34, J. R. Levan '34, E. W. Merry '34, and C. J. Nevin '34. The 1934 team last year had one of the most disastrous seasons of any Freshman team in recent years, but it is hoped that the second year will mould the 1934 basketball players into more powerful shape. Of this year's basketball group, three men, J. B. Appelbaum '32, Huppuch, and Rauh, are all members of Phi Beta Kappa...
...jaded appetite, Participation at one of these windy afternoon contests between the diminutive, perhaps, House teams, is fun for all, even if there is fear of getting knocked over by the stakesmen when someone transports the ball on a history-making jaunt. Participation of the present will serve to mould the spirit of the future...