Word: triede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's teachers tried desperate devices to keep the évacués out of mischief. They staged boxing and wrestling matches, started all sorts of games. Nevertheless, bored, homesick city toughies formed gangs, roved the countryside, beat up village children, threw stones at policemen, let pigs out of...
For 115 years the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia (founder: Benjamin Franklin) has gone solidly about its business of promoting science and industry. To many a famed scientist, engineer, inventor have gone its awards for work that advanced their professions. Like other kudos-conferring bodies, the Institute has never tried to...
This autumn, with a real war emergency at hand, Johnson tried again. Through his War Resources Board, he started honeymooning with New York's very unromantic powerboss, Floyd L. Carlisle (who would like in the process of integration to get a good piece of Howard Hopson's old...
Warren K. Billings (of Mooney & Billings), whose life sentence for the San Francisco Preparedness Day bombing was commuted fortnight ago by Governor Culbert L. Olson, last week tried to get married to Josephine Rudolph, a WPA timekeeper. Then he discovered that, unless his civil rights are restored by a full...
The late Havelock Ellis's seven-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex is one of the notable examples of clinical candor in modern writing. When he came to write his autobiography, clinically candid Havelock Ellis tried to outdo himself. Said he, "To do what I have done here...