Word: warded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strangely Irked. When Hoover Sr. became Secretary of Commerce, Herter went to Washington as his personal assistant, then moved to Boston as co-owner and co-editor of Henry Ward Beecher's old magazine of opinion, the Independent. A Republican, Herter saw to it that the Independent championed the League of Nations and word-whipped Massachusetts' Isolationist Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
...petitioned for a transfer to St. Petersburg, where as an officer he could study painting. Finally he resigned, to take off for Munich with another young painting enthusiast, Baroness Marianne Werefkin. Six years later the handsome, passionate and strong-willed Jawlensky had a child by Marianne's young ward, Helena Neznakomov, who became his devoted wife...
...movement continues to grow at its present rate. Founder Satenstein hopes that it will become as much a fixture in the life of young America as the Scouts. In that case, it will no longer be the ward of the book industry, but a recognized national organization supported by tax-deductible gifts. Meanwhile, teachers and librarians have been writing the L.C.A. Manhattan headquarters at the rate of 200 letters a month, asking how they can start chapters of their...
...Pathfinder. In El Centro, Calif., after he got lost overnight on the desert, Pomona College Geology Student Bob Ward explained that he became muddled when he paid too much attention to the maps he was making...
League leaders are Art Boland of Cornell for team offense; Claude Benham of Columbia for forward passing; Yale's Al Ward for rushing; Bob Rex of Dartmouth for punting, and Princeton's Hewes Agnew for scoring. Yale and Dartmouth ranked first in team offense and defense respectively, with Harvard ranking fourth and seven in these two categories. The Crimson ranked second in league punting...