Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Forty trainloads of rural Fascists rumbled into Genoa the Superb last week, joined the excited Genoese in watching for an imposing procession of ships which steamed at length into their great hill-cradled harbor. As this squadron of naval and merchant ships approached, a lone figure wearing an admiral's hat with a towering white plume was finally discerned upon the flagship's bridge. For two hours thereafter thousands of sirens blew without ceasing...
...Nights, learns to set type, begins writing prose and verse for Brooklyn sheetlets, the Star, the Patriot. When city life irks?even New York with John Jacob Astor tinkling through it in his sleigh?he leaves his compositor's stool to go down the Island and teach in rural schools?at Flushing, Woodbury, Whitestone. He is loved everywhere, a big gentle lad who joins in at games as soon as the bell rings; and he is content everywhere?for whenever it seems good to him he walks away, down the country roads, over a plain, off to the shore...
More than four hundred college papers are published in America. Almost every student body supports one, from the tiny four page weekly of the rural college to the complete imitation metropolitan daily in the big university. The Daily Illinois, University of Illinois, for instance, serves a community of 30,000 as the only morning paper and is printed in a university-owned plant valued at $100,000. These papers from laboratories for countless schools of journalism and furnish occupation for scores of students...
Extension Work. The Y. W. C. A. cannot reach all the communities that need its services. Last year 33 cities, 60 towns and 8 rural communities asked for aid. Of these, only four cities, one town and one village...
...movement started in Great Britain, and spread from there, taking a very strong hold in Germany, Russia, and Switzerland. It has proved especially influential in rural districts; in one Swiss town where the same man was mayor of the town and President of the Cooperative Society it was said that he considered the latter position by far the more important. This is an indication of the trend away from political coercive rule toward voluntary control by the people themselves...