May 1936

Articles

• Notes on Olympic Skiing: 1936

  Robert Livermore

• Letters From the Dust Bowl

  When drought struck Oklahoma in the 1930s, the author and her husband stayed behind to protect their 28-year-old farm. Her letters to a friend paint a picture of dire poverty, desiccated soil, and long days with no sunshine.

  Caroline A. Henderson

• Arctic Adventure

  William Beebe

• Sweden: The Middle Way

  George E. Sokolsky

• Two Novels From England

  Ethel Wallace Hawkins

• Shakespeare

  Esther Cloudman Dunn

• Monogram

  I. L. S.

• My Life in Architecture

  Ethel B. Power

• The Contributors' Column

  Betsy Hansford, Leo A. Schmidt, Earle M. Parker, John B. May, W. H. Taylor, Helen H. S. Thompson, Frances Gustavison Sarig, Constance Cassady, S. Engelking, Hazel M. Fowler, and Herman I. Spohr

• The Diary of a Prudent Investor. Ii

  Merryle Stanley Rukeyser

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

  H. B. Elliston

• 'Teem'--a Treasure-Hunter

  Rudyard Kipling

• Anthony Eden

  Harold J. Wilson

• Overburdened Men in the White House

  William Hard

• Romance

  R. S.

• What Next in Europe?

  Eugene J. Young

• Working Girl

  Mary Doyle

• The Pull of the Printed Word

  William Feather

• Poem Against War (1936)

• New England Steeple

  Frances Frost

• Thoughts on Newspapers

  Marco Morrow

• The Schoolmaster of Pitcairn

  Roy Palmer Clark

• Woman and the Professions

  Karel Čapek

• I Break Strikes: The Technique of Pearl L. Bergoff

  George E. Sokolsky

• The Exclamation-Point Style

  Alan Devoe

• The Bawx

  Jack Yeaman Bryan

• A Record Stride

  Robert Frost

• Kagawa: Proletarian Saint

  Paul Hutchinson

• Orchids Are Perishable

• Reflections in a Whirlpool

  A. Lawrence Lowell

• The French Elections--and Jean Deaux

  Leland Stowe

• The Mystery of Matter

  J. W. N. Sullivan

• My Project

• Big and Little

• Ianthina

• Of Women Knitting

• Process

  Ruth Lambert Jones

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