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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like The Good Earth, The Land and the Well is virtually an encyclopedia of Hindu manners and practices, revealed through the lives of a poor Hindu family in a dry and dusty village in one of the states of Rajputana. Using the rhythmic changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest...
Died. Rabbi Isaac Landman, 65, Russian-born president-elect of the powerful Synagogue Council of America,* onetime editor of the American Hebrew, editor in chief of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, outspoken non-Zionist; of a heart attack; in Starlake...
...morgue. We had an unabridged dictionary, the college "libraries" of some of our editors, a copy of Who's Who, and bound copies of a local newspaper (which went back 20 years but were of no use because they weren't indexed). Somebody contributed an encyclopedia, and the Public Library was close by. On closing nights the staff carted the usable part of the morgue by subway to the printer's and checked late copy while the issue went to press. As late as 1929 an office boy with a dolly could move it in half...
...charges at ease before each broadcast, he gets some delightful reactions: quick indignation for obviously stupid questions, squealing giggles to unexpected answers, busy babbling when two or more youngsters try to talk at the same time, as they frequently do. Hoping to catch an even wider audience than the encyclopedia Quiz Kids, Juvenile Jury strictly limits its questions to fields interesting to almost all children...
...learned Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (editors: Drs. Edwin Seligman and Alvin Johnson) learnedly observes: "Significant from a sociological and economic standpoint is the fact that . . . smaller lotteries . . . are patronized largely by the proletariat, whereas the patrons of the [bigger] . . . lottery loans are drawn chiefly from the middle class." Unless the Encyclopedia erred, which was indeed conceivable. Soviet Russia last week definitely moved from the proletarian to the bourgeois way of life...