Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rearmament! If Sir John had hoped, as he was understood to hope, that Herr Hitler would answer whether or not his decree of Rearmament was irrevocable or subject to negotiation, the Realmleader dashed such questions to the ground with a tirade in which he spoke of Germany's future army of perhaps a million men, proclaimed that Naziism has already saved Europe from Bolshevism and shouted at his English guests that a great Nazi German Army is needed to protect the world against the Soviet Red Army...
Rich, suburban Bronxville, N. Y., has one of the most progressive and expensive school systems in the land. From nursery school up, Bronxville youngsters have much their own say about what they study, how they study it. When a subject must be covered, teachers make it so attractive that pupils imagine they are choosing it themselves. In junior high school English, mathematics and the social sciences are required. Elective subjects emphasized are French, German and Latin-all previously offered in grammar school. Senior high school students take, in addition to regular college preparatory work, "creative" courses like art, dramatics, handicraft...
Youngsters who knew the late Winsor Zenic McCay at all remember him for his elaborate editorial cartoons in Sunday Hearstpapers. "Cartoons" they were in subject only. In workmanship, detail, and fantasy they suggested to some critics the exciting drawings of Gustave Dore. On such a Brisbanal theme as the triumph of Knowledge over Prejudice, Artist McCay could produce a startling half-page conception of titanic struggle...
...Alexander Solomon Wiener, young Brooklyn pathologist who lobbied for its passage, who, with the promptings of his lawyer-father, has become the country's best-known court expert on blood groups, and who last week produced a timely compilation of what reliable scientists know about the whole subject...
...flattering to U. S. complacence. Immigrant Louis Adamic, from the Austrian province of Carniola (now part of Yugoslavia), still writes English with a slight accent but he thinks U. S. thoughts with disturbing clarity. How the U. S. looks to foreigners who are trying to become patriated is the subject of his latest book, Grandsons...