Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent a week in Stillman--Ward Three, Bed Nine. Two days after my arrival, I noticed that they had put a new patient in Bed Ten. My new neighbor was a nice fellow--or at least he never had the opportunity to prove himself otherwise, because he was the monster at rest. He passed twenty-two of his first twenty-four Stillman hours in a state of complete oblivion...
...Much of / Wanted is a plodding recital of his rise from $18 to $45 a week (in six years) as a newsman, followed by success as a roving reporter for the Satevepost (1919-1937). In 1928, another champion of doggedness got him started writing novels. Advised his Maine friend & neighbor, Booth Tarkington: "Dig up the biggest blankbook you own and get going. Put down Arundel, page 1, Chapter 1,' on the first page, and keep right on working until you fall asleep...
Read & Write. Roberts' relationship to Neighbor Tarkington seems to have been that of apprentice to master. The kindly...
...Spain was also sounding out her chances of admission to the Atlantic pact. Three days after his Foreign Minister signed the pact in Washington, Portugal's dictator-and Spain's good neighbor- Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar declared that Spain's exclusion from the pact was a "geographical and strategical weakness" in the "Western front." *In the Security Council, Russia last week used her 30th veto to block the admission of Korea to U.N. membership...
...play." M.I.T. experimented with a football team for a while, gave it up 45 years ago. In the years after the Civil War, when the U.S. needed engineers and mechanics more than ever before, M.I.T. had no time for the cultural preoccupations of the liberal-arts colleges. While neighbor Harvard was enjoying the Golden Age of William James and Santayana, M.I.T. was off on a tangent of its own. It was the first U.S. college to have a department of meteorology, .of chemical, architectural and electrical engineering. It was the first to require its students to have regular laboratory instructions...