Word: self
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hunted Men" is more serious, being a psychological study of a fugitive criminal. Lloyd Nolan plays this part well, but honors go to Lynne Overman, who starts out as his usual alcoholic self but sobers up in time to give a sensitive, understanding portrayal of a difficult role...
...workers were moved by these erroneous reports, they were influenced much more by self-interest. To kitchen and dining-hall workers, young, rapidly becoming proficient at their jobs, desirous of summer jobs now and better winter jobs later on, the American Federation of Labor had much to offer, whereas membership in an inside union would have proved a drawback. For the other groups, older, on the whole better off, anchored to Cambridge by families and real estate, there was little in and international brotherhood to compensate for its high dues. It is significant, too, that those who most trusted...
...total wheat acreage, which was impossible, total yearly production was increased from 45 million quintals to 80 million. Since the Italian people continue to eat about 75 million quintals, this meant that Premier Mussolini had won the "battle of the grain" (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927), made Italy-self-sufficient in wheat for the first time in modern history...
Russia will fight Japan only in self-defense, Kendrie N. Marshall '21, instructor in Government, claimed last night, speaking in the Guardian broadcast over radio station WEEL...
...feeling that his love of the sea, indulged only like an amateur, was as much a vital part of him as the instinct of hunger or love. Perhaps Herman Manville--who had known this harbor like a home--had felt the same intense experience, perhaps had sat on the self-same breakwater, and had distilled that sensation for all time in the story of Ahab and the white whale...