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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...United States between 1912 and 1925 will have been borne in upon him and probably will have astonished him. For this was the day of a hundred schools of "Gists" and "Cists"; when the little magazines were spawned in the cities, the towns, and the colleges. Above the welter of schools and movements and pronunciamentoes and controversies, one figure stands out more dominantly than any other-- that of Amy Lowell, who was in the thick of the fighting on all fronts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

...welter of enthusiasm and disparagement that resulted from last week's show, a few facts stood out clearly. Under favorable conditions, the Rust picker does pick cotton fast and cheaply. It costs $1 per hour to run. In one hour last week it picked 400 Ib.-as much as one average hand-picker could gather in four days. It does not injure the plants. But it does need a high-yield stand to do its best; the yield on the Stoneville farm was estimated close to a bale to the acre, whereas the national average is about one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Picker Problems | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...many priests, nuns monks and even bishops have been killed by hot- blooded Spaniards dispatches and word-of -mouth reports to the Vatican did not indicate last week. In the bloody welter ot atrocity stories, tales, yarns, rumors and reports, not even Pius XI in all his wisdom could tell what was literally true about Spain, what was half-true and what was false. From the following Spanish material some credible, some incredible, this sad and weary old man was last week free to choose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Things on Earth | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...this welter of jokes, proverbs, signs, schoolboy howlers, stories, wisecracks, the character of the people gradually emerges, hardbitten, hardworking, unaffected, forever asking two great questions that set the theme of the book: "Where to? What next?" Sandburg puts down with equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms of everyday work, the hazards of steelmaking, of mining, of railroading. He records the last words of a wireless operator on a sinking ship ("This is no night to be out without an umbrella!") and the names of railroads: The Delay Linger and Wait is the D. L. & W., the Delaware, Lackawanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & People | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...fifty, while probably not apathetic toward it, had never seriously considered its study or appreciation. Here were unsullied potentialities--a promising group of embryonic music lovers. And then came the devitalizing attack of uninspiring fact. For four and a half months this once fertile group was subjected to a welter of dates, lives, names of compositions, and high-falutin musical terms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC FOR COURSES IN MUSIC | 2/11/1936 | See Source »

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