Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tennessee) and Halloran (who was born in McEwen, Tenn.) set out from Manhattan last September with St. Lucy attached to their Ford. St. Lucy is 23 feet long, contains living quarters forward, and in the rear, a confessional, a chapel with a folding altar, which can be opened for outdoor meetings. There is space in the trailer for phonograph records, sound film equipment, a public-address system. By last week Fathers Cunningham and Halloran were well accustomed to parking St. Lucy in likely spots, playing phonograph records to attract a crowd and then exhibiting about 50 minutes of religious movies...
This year's broadcasts will be carried by the non-commercial Boston station W1XAL, endowed by private donations and the Rockefeller Foundation for cultural programs. Beginning early last spring, W1XAL transmitted fifteen lectures direct from the classrooms, as well as University church services, outdoor concerts, and commencement features...
...would be near midnight by the time three tubs were full and ready for the morning after. Included in the preliminaries, was a trip to the woods for sassafras root and slippery elm bark for flavoring. Next morning an outdoor fire was made and the freshly scoured copper kettle swung into place. Cider on to boil, apples ready to add, and the bilin' was under way. Also ready was the long handle stirrer with a row of clean white corn husks tied through the row of holes in the end of the paddle. This was manipulated, all day long...
According to Rhodes' will "My desire being that the students who shall be elected to the scholarships shall not merely bookworms, I direct that in the election of a student regard shall be had to (1) his literary and scholastic attainments, (2) his fondness for and success in manly outdoor sports . . . . (3) his qualities of manhood, truth, courage, devotion to duty . . . . . kindliness, unselfishness, and fellowship, and (4) his exhibition of moral force of character and of instincts to lead and take an interests in his schoolmates...
...English prose," while the name Shakespeare speaks for itself; and the reading in the ancient authors, Homer and the like, is hardly less attractive. Yet to expect the student to take time off from his regular summer pursuits, whether it be a job or travel or merely routine of outdoor pleasure, and to fill out his days with reading that had better been done in term time, is unfair to the student. And it is unfair in two ways, since it imposes on his time in the summer, and it causes him to lose much of the genuine pleasure which...