Word: stoke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they picked was 44-year-old Walter Stoke, a mild-mannered political scientist who has been president of the University of New Hampshire since 1944. The son of a Methodist minister, Walter Stoke spent most of his boyhood in the Southwest (he picked cotton in Texas), was schooled in the Midwest and went to New England for his first major academic job. At N.H.U., he allowed students their first effective self-government, persuaded the state legislature to boost his university's appropriation...
...political scientist, Walter Stoke, has long been working on a book to guide people in evaluating political ideas and politicians, a project which might have been useful in Louisiana a decade ago. Stoke favors no political party ("Temperamentally I'm bent to be against the party in power"), and no pat educational theory ("Both John Dewey and Robert Hutchins can play on my team"). But by the time L.S.U.'s Board of Supervisors picked him from 144 candidates, they knew what his terms would be. He had made it clear that he wanted "full authority to administer...
What had bothered Washburn into coming to Washington was the feeling he had got from his local newspapers that something was wrong with Congress. He had come East to find out what it was, concluded that Congressmen "weren't doing a damn thing," and decided to stoke the coals...
...same time, the yearly outlay of participating libraries will be lessened by the knowledge that rarely demanded books which they might ordinarily have to stoke would be available to their subscribers through inter-library loan...
...first-class reason. Every day, at least 18 hours a day, radio puts on a different show almost every 15 minutes. Show me any other medium-the movies, the theater, anything-that burns up creative talent at that rate. It's like a boiler you continually stoke; it calls for an awful lot of coal. And there simply isn't enough to go around. Considering that, I think radio is doing an excellent...