Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...victory under her belt after races in light breezes more reminiscent of July than October, another closely contested series between the two boats is anticipated, and it is to be hoped that it will continue in the sportsmanlike manner that has characterized these races in the past. The wholesome way in which the international competition that the races represent is being conducted is a healthy sign in the present day world, where so often in clashes between the athletes of different nations national honor is put ahead of the sport...
...tiller in the races and a society that goes with them are all missing. Perhaps the cup yachts and their smaller sisters are not, as many a fishing skipper is apt to term them, just "damn toy boats"; but the sight of two vessels that have earned their way and can take the weather as it comes is bound to be a heart-warming one to every sailor. It doesn't make any particular difference who wins, and much of that will be in the breaks of the weather anyway. They are both good boats, ad the races represent sailing...
With the collection project barely under way, MacLeish declined to enlarge on his work in the library which is as he termed it "like nothing ever before tried...
Last week, with the publication of The Pursuit of Happiness, it was plain that Author Agar had swung all the way around the circuit from Right to Left. Jefferson, called lacking in character in The People's Choice, emerges as his great hero. Bryan, damned as ignorant before, is pictured as an heir to Jefferson's ideals. And Author Agar, in his best book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says...
Light versifiers usually do better cataloguing their dislikes than celebrating the small pleasures that come their way. But the light verse of 39-year-old Elwyn Brooks White is gentle; his hates are mild, his enjoyments various and even in a Manhattan summer he can find a number of innocent pleasures-the "noble step" of a Childs hostess, Sunday morning at Bedford and Barrow Streets, wheeling a baby carriage through the park, and the warm days when...