Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JOHN H. TOWNSEND...
Every week, of course, the general sees a few important Americans and Japanese. When he holds forth to visitors, they are usually spellbound. Said C.I.O. Representative Willard Townsend: "I'm amazed. The man knows more about labor than I do. His ideas and convictions on labor are more progressive than mine." Said Roger Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union: "The man's amazing. In all my years of civil liberties work, I have never found anybody with a greater understanding and a more sympathetic view toward the things we have been fighting for. Why, he even uses...
Prizes for the election competition this year will include two first awards of $50 each and three seconds of $25 each. The contest will be judged by Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy; novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26; and Major General Sherman Miles, "U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...
...quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
Last year's winners selected modern poets for their entries, but prose is acceptable. Judges for the contest include Lewis Perry, former headmaster of Exeter Academy; Walter D. Edmonds '26, novelist; and Major General Sherman Miles, U.S.A. (Ret.). Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, will be an honorary judge...