Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...null "stern beam." built something like a flat car, anchors the ship's stern. Sunnyvale is a San Franciscan triumph over San Diego which fought bitterly for the air base. Businessmen of San Francisco and neighboring towns raised $470,000 to buy the 1,000-acre Sunnyvale tract, gave the land to the Government. Total Government investment in the station will be about...
...glass, comes to let him out. Looking Forward (Cosmopolitan). The title of this picture, noisily borrowed from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's book with the President's permission, has almost no pertinence at all. Looking Forward, adapted from a London play by C. L. Anthony, is neither political tract nor visionary romance; it is a department store homily in which Lionel Barrymore takes a terrific fall in the world from the position he held in Sweepings. In Sweepings he was the tycoon owner of a Chicago Bazaar who made his general manager eat humble pie. In Looking Forward...
...hundred years ago last week a Vermonter named Peter Pindar Pease arrived at a wooded spot in Ohio with his wife and his oxen and his five children. He was the first settler of a 500-acre tract which had been selected for the town and college of Oberlin. Few months prior, Rev. John J. Shipherd of Elyria. Ohio and Philo P. Stewart, onetime missionary, had obtained land and, in the name of Jean Frédéric Oberlin* planned an institution designed for "the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion." Oberlin College opened in December...
...Mather, Edwards, and Bradford are looked upon today as boring chroniclers of a forgotten age, the enthusiastic reader can readily find much of worth and even enjoyment in these old pages. True, in this early stage of American Literature there is more than enough of the much feared religious tract or dismal "ideas on the mind," but these may be reconciled by an hour with Franklin and the Gout or Trumbull and his "Tory Squire...
Both Your Houses (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer) is high propagandist art. Playwright Anderson (Saturday's Children, Elizabeth the Queen) bases his tract on an heroic premise : that all save one of the nation's 435 Congressmen are crooked. The honest one is a young school-teacher from Nevada named Allan McClean (Shepperd Strudwick), junior member of the House Appropriations Committee...