Word: tor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Without such knowledge relief funds cannot be spent intelligently, public works cannot be spread where they will do the most good, NRA cannot calculate how much reduction in the work week is necessary to sop up the puddles of joblessness. More important, the Administration cannot lay a sound plan tor unemployment insurance such as President Roosevelt recommended last week...
...whom eloquent Howard Scott so excited and impressed could have told you for certain: where Howard Scott was born, raised, educated what were his credentials as engineer or scientist; for whom he had worked; nor, for that matter, precisely what he meant by his statements of Technocracy's solution tor technological unemployment This was partly because Technocrat Scott threw about himself an air of scientific impersonality and profundity. Technocracy was an idea; he was its intelligence; his person and personality did not matter; listen and understand, if you can, but do not interrupt or pry into Howard Scott...
Familiar to residents of southern California is the grunion, or sand-smelt (Athenmdae), a little fish that comes out on the beach at high tide, stands on its tail and dances in the moonlight. But few Cahfornians have inquired into the reason tor this strange nocturnal dance. In the May issue of Field & Stream, Fisherman Neil Frost described a grunion run, explained the dance...
...Jeffers' intention to live in Europe was thwarted by the War. Looking for a place to live they came on the spot where Hawk Tower and Tor House now stand: ''When the stagecoach topped the hill . . . and we looked down through pines and sea-fogs on Carmel Bay, it was evident that we had come without knowing it to our inevitable place...
Meanwhile the school has turned out many a notable graduate, including: Poet Robert Silliman Hillyer, Playwright-Direc- tor Worthington C. Miner, Vice President Edward T. Gushee of Detroit Edison Co., Vice President Henry T. Skelding of Guaranty Trust Co., Editor Albert G. Lanier of St. Nicholas, Novelist James Gould Cozzens. So enthusiastically did they spread the Kent gospel that by 1923 the enrolment demand had exceeded Father Sill's conception of what a school body should be. Nearby, under his guidance, was founded South Kent School, with one of his graduates, Samuel Slater Bartiett, as headmaster. First South Kent senior...