Word: rurality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Read has written 20-odd books of poetry, criticism and biography (Wordsworth; In Defense of Shelley) and become Britain's top authority on modern art. He is a not uncommon type of his generation-an intellectual who was born early enough to enjoy the traditional tranquillity of Victorian rural England, but who reached an individualistic maturity during the disordered years between two wars. It is in this respect that his autobiography makes good reading-for Read shuns sensational confessions and concentrates on the varying influences that left their marks on his mind...
Rough Road. In the House the Republican economizers had found the going as rough as a plowed field. The Appropriations Committee's stiff 32% cut in the Department of Agriculture's budget had made some rural Republicans jumpy. With the aid of these waverers, the Democrats came close to restoring funds for soil conservation, school lunches, rural electrification...
Gear for the Rana. The Rana of Koti, however, rode in a sedan chair, as befitted the ruler of the Indian state in which the grove of Sipi is situated. To make the rural expedition bearable for the Rana and his guests, the princes from neighboring hill states, an enormous amount of paraphernalia had been carried over mountains by mule and coolie. This included three sofas, a dozen overstuffed chairs, 100 straight chairs, tents, doormats, 50 small tables complete with luncheon service, and two Victorian hatracks...
...richest revenue-producing issue in the long history of the oldest U.S. magazine. The Saturday Evening Post that loaded newsstands and stuffed rural mailboxes last week was thick with a thumping $1,625,000 worth of ads. It was not so fat as the 272-page Post of Dec. 7, 1929, in the days when the Post was the top U.S. magazine (in recent years LIFE has led in circulation and advertising revenue). But last week's Post took in more money than 1929's best because the Post's ad rates were...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek knew that literacy was a military weapon for an army that needed leaders. In 1940, near bombed-out Chungking, the National College for Rural Reconstruction was founded, with Yen as president...