Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year of Munich, armies had increased to 10,000,000 men, naval tonnage had jumped to 8,000,000, military planes had possibly trebled in number and $17,000,000,000 went slithering down the gullet of the hungry god of war-to-be. This year, with Russia leading the Big Parade (U. S. S. R. war budget for 1939 is $8,000,000,000), these figures are again skyrocketing...
From Mexico came minor pictures by the masters, including Jean Chariot, and from Argentina and Chile a number of works lustrous with contemporaneity. Guatemala, Ecuador, Paraguay and the Dominican Republic were represented by curiosities rather than quality, but the whole show was a sidelong stride toward the "intellectual interchange" agreed upon at the Lima Conference...
...Most dangerous of all occupations is farming, according to Dr. John Howard Powers of the Bassett Hospital. Highest number of occupational deaths throughout the U. S. occurs among agricultural workers. But what hurts the farmers most often is not a reaper or a pitchfork, but a reckless motorist hurtling through country lanes...
...Director in Chief of Literature, in Nazi Book News of April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest-of-unemployment novels, no good race, blood and soil novels...
Frederick P. Herter '42 was recently elected captain of the Yardling undefeated crew. Herter, a Bostonian and graduate of St. Paul's School, rows at the number 3 position in the Freshman boat...