Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spiritually constructive books they have read in the last two years, such as Henry C. Link's The Rediscovery of Man, Robert Norwood's Increasing Christhood, etc. Never have there been so many wonderful inspirational books written as recently and religion is sensibly, "gropefully" discussed at every turn. Unfortunately we are still impressed as a nation by education meaning "an accumulation of knowledge of facts" rather than education as "a deepening of consciousness." When our braintrusters can be trusted because they have learned how to live wisely themselves instead of trying to impress us with their "Smart Alec...
...Friday, when Chancellor Hitler returned grim-faced to Berlin from Berchtesgaden and called off his Tannenberg speech-scheduled for Sunday-things seemed to take a turn for the worse. There was no great cheering crowd at the Chancellery. Cafes were practically empty. Nerves grew taut. Over the radio Nazi Deputy Rudolph Hess openly talked of the chance of war, roared that if it comes, "it will be terrible." In the Pankow District School some children heard the howl of a siren, remembered their air raid instructions, filed rapidly out. But it was only a factory whistle down the street...
...Revolution. After the war, Kallikak, who was of good stock, married a Quakeress, had seven respectable children. But before his marriage he had fathered a child of a feeble-minded servant girl. This roistering son, known to the neighborhood as "Old Horror," sired ten worthless offspring, who in turn were responsible for several generations of notorious Kallikaks...
Last Christmas Day General Evangeline reached retirement age of 73. Fortnight ago the High Council to choose her successor convened near London. Sessions were secret as the Army's progressive wing launched a full-dress attack to turn it democratic. Snail-like was the push, for the High Council can only elect or oust a General and has no other power to control him. Finally this obstacle was breached by quizzing the candidates, engineering a gentleman's agreement with each of them that "no changes . . . should be promoted by the General elected . . . without the fullest possible consideration...
...slump but a record year was 1938 for Sperry Corp. This year working overtime to turn out antiaircraft equipment, searchlights, airplane instruments, and deep-sea gyro equipment, Sperry netted a thumping $2,469,576 ($1.23 per share), up 12% from 1938's record first half, up 49% from the first half of 1936 when the armament boom began. Buttressed against wartime demands for working capital, it had $5,768,158 cash, 31% more than last summer...