Word: writer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emile Augier. In 1915 he was appointed Minister without portfolio in the Briand administration. He wrote many books, the best of which were on such subjects as railway economics, infinitesimal analysis, irrigation and the philosophy of science. That is the outline of his life as a statesman, politician, academician, writer...
...work. After the 1870 debacle he reorganized the army and introduced conscription. He created the General Staff and the Supreme Council as it was during the Great War. As Minister of Public Works he constructed 2,000 miles of railway and 8,000 miles of canals. As a scientific writer he wrote many valuable books, but most of his political works are considered too biased...
...fiftieth, of the normal figure has taken hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the house owners." About the people: " How do they live? The petty officials of the Government, who receive $10 a month; the physicians who wear themselves out attending patients who can never pay; the writer who receives royalties of $50 for a book, which represented a year of research; the officer's widow, who receives a pension of a few cents a month; the artist obliged to sell a fine etching for half a dollar; in short those who once had a little leisure...
...Chicago claims him as her own. His education, which was never formal after early high school days, is broad, and in some respects, deep. A voracious reader, he has taught himself what most academicians do not know how to teach-the ability to think constructively. His training as a writer began with reporting days in Davenport, Iowa. Later, in Chicago, he became associate, then editor of the Literary Page of the Evening Post, a position now ably filled by the wise (as well as clever) Llewellyn Jones, Since then he has been converted in one way or another with...
...studied at Cornell. She is the wife of Prof. John Henry Comstock, eminent entomologist, with whom she collaborated. She has made a special study of wood engraving and entomological illustration, and received medals for engraving at the Buffalo and Paris expositions. She is widely known as a lecturer and writer on nature study, the author of numerous handbooks on butterflies, bees, trees, etc., and the editor of the Nature Study Review...