Word: sphere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir John Reeves Ellerman, 71, shipping tycoon, reputed possessor of Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind...
Next in Chicago convened the National Education Association. Retiring President Joseph Rosier Leduoff: "When as a condition of making loans, the banking interests of Chicago, Boston, New York or any other community attempt to tell the educational authorities how to run their schools, they are stepping outside their sphere." Said NEA's Publications Director Joy Elmer Morgan: "America is in the midst of a struggle between Democracy and the caste system fostered by the great financial czars. . . ." On and on it went...
...committee meets in Washington to decide upon "the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year." To the person or institution responsible for the achievement goes a bronze figure of a male rising from a sphere, head held high, right hand grasping a soaring pigeon. It is the Collier Trophy, established 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of old Publisher P. F. Collier of Collier's Weekly. Besides being editor of Collier's after the Spanish-American War, Son Robert was an early...
...should, in the first place, publish its findings, and the facts about its various activities, so that the students may know what is being done for them and may voice their opinions. Such a policy would arouse interest and invigorate the whole organization. In the second place, the sphere of activity of the Council should be widened, and more important, the many issues directly affecting the student body should be carefully taken up. To cite pertinent examples: The recent abolition of the position of Adviser in Religion should certainly have been considered; assistance and advice should have been given publicly...
GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best...