Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nickel to dial MEridian 7-1212, hear a telephone operator chirp the correct time. This week, to "increase the scope and value" of its services-and to collect an estimated 3,000 nickels a day-the New YorkTelephone Co. opens a new exchange. Dialers will hear a 25-second weather report, recorded on magnetic tape from information supplied at least four times daily by the U. S. Weather Bureau. Phone: WEather...
Died. Ghazi ibu Feisal. 27. second King of Iraq (first: his late, famed father Feisal, placed on the throne by Great Britain in 1921 at the instance of "Lawrence of Arabia"); near Bagdad; in an automobile accident. Ghazi loved speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency...
Apart from its subject matter, North of the Danube offers the two collaborators'* second example of a word & picture book which shatters the whole complacent technique of travel books...
Baton Rouge. Pale Horse, Pale Rider is the second book in three weeks to come out of the new Southern literary centre at Baton Rouge, La. That eminent patron of the arts, the late Huey Long, inadvertently started a writing colony there when he imported a group of young Southern writers to give his Louisiana State University intellectual prestige to match its new buildings. Leader is Robert Penn Warren, who found time to edit a critical quarterly, The Southern Review, while writing his first novel, Night Rider (TIME, March...
...Committee's warning against the "second rate heretic" does not apply to Mr. Hicks, who is indisputably of the first calibre. Certainly his views are now "inadequately represented" in the English department, and he can be justly called a "thoughtful rebel," a type of scholar whom President Conant declared essential to education in a speech at Amherst four years ago. If this university is to be consistent with the most profound recent expression of its liberal attitude it should make Mr. Hicks a member of its staff...