Word: rusticates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University of Maine is tucked away 68 mi. up the Penobscot River at rustic Orono (pop.: 3,400), eight miles above Bangor. It started out in 1868 with twelve students and two teachers as a State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts. By 1897 the school had added a college of arts & sciences and was ready to call itself a university. A College of Law founded in 1898 expired in 1920. A School of Education was launched in 1930. Maine's chief distinction is still in its College of Agriculture & Forestry and a College of Technology which Maine men like...
...called urban areas than in the rural regions. This was not true until the 1920's, Professor Holcombe is concerned with what effect this will have upon American political parties, which have previously based their strategy upon sectional not class interests. It will mean a change from rustic to urbane politics (as he very charmingly puts...
...apparently never occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally...
Last week a bull blundered into a small antique shop at rustic Fakenham in Norfolk. Within, pricing china, was Her Majesty, white-haired Queen Mary. Eyeing the bull steadily, Queen Mary retreated three paces while clerks coaxed the animal out, without damage...
Perfectly logical from the Nazi standpoint, this "lifting" springs from Adolf Hitler's firm belief that his State must strive to create a "pure German race" and that the race today is purest among rustic homesteaders unpolluted by the "Jewish Marxism" to be found in German towns. By setting apart and pampering the peasants Leader Hitler hopes to rear an "aristocracy of blood...