Word: schools
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months in California's Alcatraz and Terminal Island Prisons, was whisked across the continent by Federal Agents to Baltimore's Union Memorial Hospital in order to be given malaria. Object: a fever cure of his paresis under the care of Dr. Joseph E. Moore, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine instructor in syphilology...
...parties celebrating the completion of farming jobs or such vital events as birth, marriage, or the sending of a conscripted son to the army. Strong is the incentive to cooperation: he who gives none gets none. Through agricultural associations the Government teaches the best farming methods; through the village school it teaches obedient jingoism...
...More moneyed farmers may now hire labor instead of exchanging it. In this rural microcosm of Japan, Embree distinguishes six classes: upper upper, lower upper, upper middle, lower middle, upper lower, lower lower. Some 27% of households have at least one servant, 26% include someone educated beyond the village school, 12% subscribe to newspapers. Suye Mura has one motorcycle, no automobiles, 160 bicycles, four sewing machines, five radios, 20 phonographs, and one telephone (in the village office...
Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...
...Beisel, chief engineer of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Company, has been appointed lecturer on Aeronautic Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, the University announced Saturday...