Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even praises D'Annunzio's bald head. But in this he falls short of D'Annunzio himself, who declared that his "highly polished cranium," as a thing of beauty, could be ranked with a greyhound or the legs of Actress Ida Rubinstein. One of the worst pieces of horse opera to find a U. S. publisher, D'Annunzio runs to 583 pages, carries conviction in none of them. To U. S. readers it is a striking demonstration of Author Antongini's ability to write much and say little, an even more striking demonstration...
Only five years ago Franklin Roosevelt called TVA "the widest experiment ever undertaken by a government." By last winter the experimenters chosen to do the job had become one of the President's worst headaches. Quarreling among the three TVA directors obliged him to call them to the White House to try their charges against one another. He was pained when Chairman Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, insisting that the trial would not be adequate, refused to discuss with the President his complaints against his co-directors, insisted on taking them to Congress (TIME, March 21). When the President dismissed...
...children of school age (5 to 17) not enrolled in any school, found even in relatively well-off Wisconsin 55,000 youngsters who get less than 90 days of schooling a year (the U. S. norm is 200 days). Most squalid intellectual slums are in the South. Worst slum: Alabama, with only 59% of its children in school...
...produces more than 100 tons of fancy tomatoes each year on his farm at Princess Anne, Md., was not a bit flustered last week by the guinea pigs' criticisms of Lincoln School. He was pleased "that our friends do not hesitate to tell us about our worst faults." And Alumnus-Teacher Tom Prideaux explained: "Progressive teaching is popularly suspect. It is a convenient scapegoat. Further, many students in new schools like Lincoln are recruited from families with a talent for criticism. They have rebellion in their bones...
...usually ran in the capital for only a few hours each day. Food shops were on short rations, gone altogether the displays of wines, cold meats, biscuits and pastries of a few weeks ago. In Barcelona last week 28 Rightist suspects were executed by Leftist firing squads, and the worst Rightist air raids in six weeks had killed 30, wounded 50 at latest dispatches...