Word: rurals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Mme. Pilsudska dwells principally at rural Sulejowek, 12 miles from Warsaw, where she provides a quiet soothing refuge to which her harassed and moody husband often flees. With her young daughters, Wanda and Hedwig, she assists the Marshal to prune his apple trees and tend his bees...
Since the rural lamp burning vote is combustible, Chancellor Churchill acted with instant decision, and extinguished the Labor attack by announcing that he had decided, overnight, to exempt kerosene from the tax, which, however, will still bear on gasoline. Well pleased at the flurry caused by his announcement, Mr. Churchill added: "His Majesty's Government have no fear that motorists will evade the tax on gasoline by attempting to use kerosene. They would do more harm to their engines than to the Exchequer...
...Father) and Elliott (Son) Nugent. They write their plays, one would suppose, while sitting on the front porch, and then read the script to the neighbors. Although the plot of their latest contribution hangs upon a surgical operation which is highly sophisticated if scientifically vague, the play retains a rural placidity. Perhaps this is because Father Nugent, a portly but very mildly sinister figure, acts his leading role...
These fellowships are in the field of Anthropology, Economics, Human Geography, Political Science, Law, Phychology, Sociology, and History. Fourteen universities, from coast to coast, are represented by the Fellows selected, and the latter will gather their material from all parts of the globe. A geographer will study rural communities in Japan: an anthropologist will investigate the problem of adolescent and child psychology in A South Sea island another the adjustment of Individuals to society in a Pueblo village, a third anthropologist the background of Chicago immigrants in Steily: a political scientist will study the problem of contemporary political leadership...
...deep-voiced Professor Jabavu, of the South African Native College, pointed out that in his country, while there are five blacks to one white, 88% of educational funds are spent on whites. The Rev. Dr. Charles Pugh, who had come from the Congo Free State, said that in the rural districts there were thousands of people who could read, but that they had no books...