Word: potful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race of pure Homo sapiens ancestry appeared which learned agriculture and animal husbandry. Some of them moved north and west to blend with the hunters and fishers. Thus the European melting pot was set to boil, and hundreds of further migratory stirrings, major and minor, kept it seething...
...lofty ballroom of the Cleveland Auditorium, Vice President Ed Hall of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America made a speech one day last week. After dwelling upon the factional feuds which had nearly wrecked the most promising of C. I. O.'s newer unions, pot-paunched Brother Hall observed: "I say that this organization must be like a cat with nine lives. . . . Unless you can put men in office and quit . . . sniveling, snitching and jibing at those individuals, you will never have unity, you will never have a constructive, democratic, militant organization...
Bernard Berenson is a frail, spirited, punctilious greybeard of 73 and a U. S. citizen. His life has been such a courtship of opportunity by intelligence as only the Melting Pot is supposed to produce, and in fact it produced him. His family were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania who settled in Boston soon after the Civil War. They were poor but they thirsted for culture, and young Berenson worked himself through Boston University with an eye to a literary career. The beautiful and dashing Mrs. Jack Gardner, then engaged in setting Boston on its ear, discovered his brilliance and helped...
...surrealistic sight of a Parisian racing through his native streets with his head thrust through a cane chair-seat, a pair of garters streaming from his back and a license plate and a pot of vegetables in either hand, is not a sign of galloping national debility due to continental complications. Frenchmen know, and others soon learn, that the galloper is merely out to win the 200-franc ($5.30) prize, offered each afternoon by the private radio station Paste Parisien in its Course au Trésor, a radio scavenger hunt patterned after one which Paris loved in the droll...
...generation ago, U. S. immigrants found sanctuary and a melting pot in church or shop. Today's immigrants, a more intellectual group, find both in school. Most famed German immigrants welcomed by U. S. schools are Thomas Mann, now at Princeton, and Albert Einstein, at the nearby Institute for Advanced Study. At the New School for Social Research in Manhattan is a "University in Exile," whose entire faculty consists of European notables. But it is as students, not teachers, that many refugees have found a chance to begin life afresh in U. S. colleges,* public and private schools...