Word: roam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everywhere I Roam (by Arnold Sundgaard & Marc Connelly; produced by Marc Connelly & Bela Blau) is a hymn to the soil. It begins 100 years ago in a sort of prairie Garden of Eden. The toiling farmer drips with honest sweat, his steadfast wife brings him cool water from the spring, and Johnny Appleseed moseys by, planting apple trees...
...well hold more directorships (121) than any other U. S. businessman, is famed for his judgment of the capital market-he invariably picks the right moment to float bond issues. Last week, after 48 years with the Pennsylvania, he gave up railroading, planned henceforth to chop trees and roam the woods near his Christmas Cove, Me. home...
...opened a five-day pronghorn hunting season outside its refuge, the first since 1911, limiting hunters to one horned animal of either sex but permitting the use of telescope sights on guns. Reason: too plentiful to please farmers, too tame for their own good, many pronghorns have broken bounds, roam nearby ranches at night to steal food...
...prime importance are the preventive measures of the U. S. Public Health Service, carried out under the guidance of Dr. Clifford Rush Eskey. With shotguns and traps, field crews roam the country, killing rats and squirrels at sight. Rat burrows are sprayed with calcium cyanide. Rat-proofing of buildings is strongly urged, and, when necessary, incoming ships are fumigated. By such constant, vigilant rat-catching, Dr. Eskey expects to forestall an epidemic such as Los Angeles had, in 1924, when 24 people were stricken...
...students who, under Plan A, receive tutorial instruction are in general highly satisfied with that instruction. The students who, under Plan B, receive little or no tutorial work as Juniors and Seniors are free to roam, according to the ancient Eliot tradition, among the variegated courses of the College. The all-important Sophomore tutorial, which in a sufficiently staffed department would give the student a panoramic view of his field, is hopelessly muddled by the individual interests of the tutors. This work should be standardized and systematized, and would be better carried out in larger groups. In addition, a card...