Word: trough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind up the saga with Youth, The Storm...
During the midnight hours while the S. S. Dumbea swelters through the tropic heat of the Suez Canal, two sweat-drenched passengers turn in their steamer-chairs, begin to talk. One is a U. S. scientist, Joel, the other an Anglican missionary priest. As befits the steaming trough, bordered by desert horizons, in which they find themselves, their talk treats of life's early beginnings, Man's ends and possible...
...when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...
Last week President Hoover gave what he called "most serious attention" to the railroads and their financial plight. Anxious bondholders were telegraphing him inquiries as to measures and agencies to help the carriers earn their fixed charges ''across the trough of the Depression." The President assembled a list of all the means of assistance being put at the disposal of the carriers and found their total encouraging. First, there was the Railway Credit Corp. in which, for the benefit of weak lines, would be pooled excess earnings from rate increases. Next there was emergency rail...
Educational concern, an reflected in accompanying clippings from the Press still faces old problems with old bromidioms. Though democracy can lead boys to college in great numbers, educators still complain that, like the proverbial horse and the watering trough, it cannot make them think. "Too many men go to college without any real fitness for higher education or capacity of profiting by it," declares President Comfort of Haverford College. His answer to the question is a concentration on "quality rather than quantity", more individual attention to a smaller group. Other conventional panaceas are: to raise scholastic requirements before and during...