Word: mountaineer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adjustment. One man, primarily a teacher, should probably devote all his time to teaching. Such a man's inspiration comes to him as he speaks. Another's greatest service is research, another's writing, another's to commune with the universe. One does his best work lying on a mountain in the sun, another perhaps when he is shaving. I do not mean that the university should supply mountains and shaving materials, but that every teacher should have the time and opportunity not only to do his work but to seek the sources of his strength, and should even when...
...Gallitos (the cockerels)-George R. ("Tuck") Johnson, 30, Robert Shippe, 20, and their three young companions-are amazing Peruvians with their airplane jaunts over the Andean ridge. From a base at Lima they have air-photographed the mountain folds, Inca ruins, and near Huancayo "the Great Wall" of Peru. Last week they and their two planes were at Arequipa, whence they will try to reach Lake Titicaca...
Quadragesimo Anno. As last week's 40th anniversary of Rerum Novarum approached, the roundheaded, 73-year-old man in the Vatican who 40 years ago was an energetic priest fond of mountain-climbing, and who since has shown himself one of the great Statesman-Popes, beheld the industrial and financial worlds again seething with a great unrest. In Russia the overturn had come, violently, and Mother Church had suffered there with Capitalism. Throughout the world, even Capitalists were saying, "Capitalism is not perfect. It must mend itself and mankind." Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, His Holiness Pope Pius XI, perceived...
Honored. Martha McChesney Berry, founder of the Berry Schools for mountain children at Mount Berry, Ga., protégée of President Theodore Roosevelt; with the third annual medal of Manhattan's Town Hall Club for "an accomplishment of lasting merit."* Other nominees for the award: Author Newton Booth Tarkington. Producer Daniel Frohman, Playwright Marcus Cook Connelly, Banker George Foster Peabody...
...river drops below a specified level at Trenton, New York must release a part of its impounded supply. On the East Branch will be constructed an $18,700,000 dam from which a tunnel big enough to drive an automobile in will be blasted 22 mi. through solid mountain rock to link with the present Catskill system. Another $7,200,000 reservoir will be made on the Neversink River. Total cost of dams, reservoirs and aqueducts for the new project: $210,000,000. Twelve years will elapse before its completion...