Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debating Council is to be congratulated not only as a pioneer in such a field but as again elevating debating to the position it deserves...
Added Sir Alan Cobham, a pioneer England-to-Australia flyer: "The possibilities of strafing from the air have become so uncivilized that it has become beyond war. Lord Castlerosse knows nothing about...
...Damrosch's day was done. After 42 years on the same stand, his performances grew routine and his players seemed lazy. But as a musical educator Conductor Damrosch was not to be defeated. National Broadcasting Co. begged him to teach school children, and he was again ready to pioneer. The Damrosch "Appreciation Hour" began by reaching a million youthful listeners. Last week it was estimated that through benign "Uncle Walter" some 6,000,000 children are learning to know great music. Proceeds of last week's Manhattan Jubilee went to the Musicians' Emergency Fund, now Damrosch...
Died. Anna Katharine Green (Mrs. Charles Rohlfs), 88, pioneer detective story writer; in Buffalo, N. Y. Influenced by Emile Gaboriau and Wilkie Collins, she published her first work, The Leavenworth Case, in 1878, nine years before Conan Doyle introduced Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet. A bestseller, it ran to 150,000 copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green...
...campaign days before the battle. Afterwards, the sadly shaken Governor of Massachusetts wired Washington asking to have "the martyrs who died in the late battle tenderly preserved in ice and sent forward." Author Pratt never hesitates to give his opinion of Civil War personalities, calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub...