Word: mountings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...authorities are: I. A. Richards, head of Magdalen College at Oxford, a specialist in semantics; Shepard Jones, New England director of the World Peace Foundation; William Stoddard '07, public relations counsel for Filene's; Robert B. Choate '19, an editor of the Boston Herald; Professor Norton Long '32, of Mount Holyoke College, who has made a special study of the propaganda of corporations; M. D. Schulman, Columbia research psychologist and counsel for various governmental agencies; Edward Bernays, public relations counsel from New York; Lloyd Free, recently appointed editor of "The Political Science Quarterly"; and William Paley, Jr., president...
After the "new State" had made worldwide headlines, tactful Angers authorities unobtrusively explained that it had no dimensions, that their soil remains 100% French but that troops of the Polish Army, which General Sikorski is industriously recruiting in France and Britain among expatriate Poles, will be permitted to mount armed guard over the buildings leased to the Poles in Angers, and "it is expected they will feel and act like frontier guards...
...through medical school, hung out his shingle in Brooklyn. Interested by the plans for Peary's Arctic expedition of 1891, he volunteered, was accepted. Later Cook went on a Belgian Antarctic expedition and won the admiration of Roald Amundsen. Cook's other expeditions were to Greenland, Alaska, Mount Everest, Borneo. He was rated a popular and able explorer...
Cook, too, had his troubles. In December, 1909, the Explorers' Club expelled him because it disbelieved his claim to have climbed Alaska's 20,300-ft. Mount Mc-Kinley, highest peak in North America, in 1906. He got mixed up in some oil stock frauds, served five years in prison. His friends said he was an innocent figurehead who had been deceived by the embezzlers. Three years ago he sued the Encyclopaedia Britannica, two publishers and a writer for "discrediting" his claim to the discovery of the North Pole. To date he has collected nothing...
Five hundred students lost an aggregate of 80 studying hours, and the taxpayers of Cambridge saw $600 go out the window as a prankster, assumed to be from the Lampoon, pulled two false alarm bells just outside the Monstrosity of Mount Auburn Street at 8 o'clock and again at 10 o'clock last night...