Word: ruralization
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...rural Mursley last week Schoolmaster Bozman sat dozing by his fireside when suddenly a hard-pressed fox came leaping through his windowpane, followed by the entire pack of Whaddon Chase hounds. Run to earth behind Schoolmaster Bozman's bookcase, the fox was torn to bits with much baying and yelping by the triumphant hounds...
From the White House went a statement that the report "establishes a yardstick on rates for the Northeastern area of the U. S. which can be applied to every city, town and rural community in connection with the development of the St. Lawrence River as a public power project." That statement left no doubt about the real purpose of the Walsh report. When President Roosevelt brings up the St. Lawrence Waterway treaty again next year, the Walsh report will serve as a rolling barrage of statistics to clear the ground for Senate ratification...
...pennies. A three-year apprenticeship in the St. Louis underworld landed him, in 1925, in Missouri Penitentiary for a payroll robbery. There he peddled drugs, struck down guards, and met "Red" Lovett, who teamed up with him on his release in 1929. For the next four years he robbed rural banks, taking on new partners as his old ones fell dead by the wayside. Whenever pursuit got too close, he retired to the Cookson Hills where he reputedly keeps a string of mountaineers in funds in exchange for their close-mouthed hospitality. A murderously cool shot, his trigger finger...
...newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington, University of Chicago. A leader in the Progressive Education movement, he lives on a farm in New Hope, Pa., last year sent his two young daughters to a one-room rural school. That he yearns toward the new frontier of social equality Professor Counts ascribes partly to the fact that he was born in Kansas, when the old frontier spirit was still strong. Since then he has studied Soviet Russia at first hand, discussed it in many a book and article...
Educators in the United States have often been accused of gross extravagance. Mr. H. L. Menckerr and others have bitterly denounced what they consider the too splendid buildings, gymnasium, swimming pools, and manual training shop of city and even rural schools. The present crisis in education, they say, is the direct result of lavish expenditure in better times, when boards of educations piled up huge bonded indebtedness. Now, with no money and less credit, the educators are paying for the sins of their predecessors...