Word: pisgah
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...MOSGROVE Pisgah...
...overall look at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the fall of 1946 is no Pisgah sight. For although the Harvard faculty is rivalled by no other American college with the possible exception of Chicago, it is surprisingly spotty and contains astonishing lacks. By and large, the Faculty's principal weakness seems to lie in its younger men, a weakness which is particularly poignant inasmuch as the continued supremacy of the Harvard Faculty is predicated on its ability to replenish itself through the appointment of the very best of the young teachers and scholars. In addition, discrepancies exist among...
Last week in Chicago N.F.C.C. held its sixth annual conference. High lights: Cigaret paper is more widely used in the U. S. than in any other nation, but most U. S. cigaret paper has always been made in France from rags. At Pisgah Forest, N. C., Paperman Harry Straus set up a plant to make cigaret paper direct from domestic flax, separating the flax fibre from the flax straw by newly developed decorticating machines. Result: a market for 10,000 tons a year of U. S. flax...
...that millions of Jews all over the world will develop harmful Freudian complexes if the Jews of Palestine, although given its richest land by the proposed partition, are denied the psychological release of owning certain sacred mounts, even though they be given other mounts. Cried emotional Sir Archibald: "Mount Pisgah will never satisfy the longings which Mount Zion inspires in the Jewish breast! I warn that the whole Jewish race would get a fixation...
...Collier & Son Co., to thank for their fun. He calls fishing "my golf," serves as chairman of Connecticut's State Board of Fisheries & Game. When he heard last year about the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries' trout stream for women in North Carolina's Pisgah National Forest he decided then & there that Connecticut women should have the same privilege. Property-owners along the chosen three miles of Branford River helped him by leasing fishing rights to the State without charge. He had the stream well stocked with gamey brook trout...