Word: reforming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...robbery was reported. In his car they found a 2 by 4 bludgeon, at his home shoes which fitted the cast of a footprint near where Delia Bogard was felled. De Witt Clinton Cook, 20, a marauding printer who had learned the fine points of robbery at an Iowa reform school, confessed that he killed Anya Sosoyeva, struck down Delia Bogard, yielded to "an uncontrollable impulse" and raped Myrtle Wagner after he had looted her employer's home. On his way to the campus to show police and newsmen how he had worked, he was allowed to visit...
Last week, as it does every other year, the National Conference of Christians and Jews held its Institute of Human Relations at Williamstown, Mass., discussed in mani- fold aspects the general theme "Citizenship and Religion." Typical forums were on the Church's relationship to economic reform, legislation, civil liberties, education, entertainment, social welfare...
...Mayor John Lynch, victorious over the incumbent in a libel suit but loser in the 1937 election, has also thrown down the glove. Another important candidate may be ex-Mayor Richard M. Russell '14, who could probably repeat his previous reform and economy victory
Then Cinemactress West suggested as a likely convert to MRA her coming costar, raffish W. C. Fields. "Give it to him in a bottle and he'll go for it," she told Dr. Buchman, promised, "If you reform Bill I'll let him win me in our next picture." But raucous, red-nosed Bill Fields proved recalcitrant. Said he: "I'll take anything in a bottle. But I don't need re-armament...
Professor Curtis' outburst was applauded by many another science teacher. This week a group at Columbia University's Teachers College, led by venerable Progressive Samuel Ralph Powers, began a campaign to reform U. S. science teaching. They published the first of a series of Rockefeller-financed books intended to make Science more sense-making to students: Life and Environment, by Oberlin College's famed Botanist Paul Bigelow Sears...