Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FARMER'S WIFE?Devonshire comedy in which Mr. and Mrs. Coburn are supplying a rural and uproarious commentary on marrying at five and fifty...
...desires to be limned in this column. Some of them I have met. Some are strangers to me in the flesh ; but, willy nilly, I am determined to write a column concerning them. First, is Elinor Wylie, born in Washington, married now to William Rose Benét, living in rural Connecticut, writing vigorously on a new novel...
...loadings hold up very well and, owing to rural prosperity, promise to continue so when Eastward-bound grain cars return West loaded with merchandise...
...Martin's state," said the bulletin, "the rural schools are handicaped, chiefly because of the small school district system and because of unscientific methods of raising school revenues." More progressive states than Martin's contribute, in addition to income from a permanent school fund, extra appropriations for local school maintenance. In Martin's state, these extra appropriations come annually to only about 3½% of the fixed school revenue...
Professor T. N. Carver taught rural economics at Cornell for six months. He spent a few days at the Farmingdale Agricultural School. The rest of the time he remained at Duxbury. At Farmingdale the members of the summer institute visited by means of fifty automobiles the Long Island farms. Though "they were harmless agriculturists" people believed their procession to be a demonstration of the Ku Klux Klan. Professor Carver believes most of the excitement over the Ku Klux Klan has just as innocent origin as this...