Word: woven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever worked for a newspaper or wire service the number "30" has a special meaning. At the bottom of a page of editorial copy it indicates the end of the piece. Most frequently it is encountered in telegraph-reports. Years of use have made it a symbol to be woven into obituaries and floral offerings for deceased brethren of the Press. But whence came the term? Frank T. Owen, 47 years an employe of the Utica (N. Y.) Daily Press, canvassed his friends far & wide, compiled eight more or less plausible theories. Last week Editor & Publisher reported them...
Popular support for precisely such investigation has been gathering headway as the result of a series of articles ("T Rescue of Germany," "As Noble Lenders," "Opening the Golden Goose") written by serious little Garet Garrett and published by the Saturday Evening Post. With excellent hindsight and a closely-woven argument Mr. Garrett has depicted U. S. finance recklessly dumping Other People's Money into Europe and then turning frantically to international politics to be rescued. Not satisfied with the Post's huge circulation of the Garrett theme, Francis Patrick Garvin, president of the Chemical Foundation and a good...
...recognize his Church in its Mexican form. With its customary realism it has here compromised with the native Indian faith. The Virgin is an Indian girl, with the natural dignity and beauty of her race. She appears to a poor peon and about this miracle the Church has woven all the mystery and hidden power characteristic of the Catholic tradition. In Catholicism the Indian finds the sonorous repetition of a potent formula which is what he asks of religion. His imagination is caught by the gilded altar-piece and he is emotionally confused and stirred by the lighting...
...Babbitry, the Florida boom, the rise of the racketeer-all these are set forth in rapid, competent, factual narrative. Author Allen has "wondered whether some readers might not be interested and perhaps amused to find events and circumstances which they remember well-which seem to have happened only yesterday-woven into a pattern which at least masquerades as history." The Book-of-the-Month Club has answered his question by choosing Only Yesterday for their December book...
...does. In the dry U. S. South west, as in dry Peru, Egypt, Palestine and Mesopotamia, remnants of his early society still persist. Diligent searchers find tidbits of information which indicate how families grouped into tribes, tribes into peoples; how man progressed with his domestic utensils, from woven baskets to turned pots, from animal skins to woven clothes; how simple natural science became supernatural religion; how man's learning to cultivate corn required his settling clown on his tilled fields, how the settlements became teeming cities...