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Word: americans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only console is that the American public is fickle. It soon forgets bad news the same as it forgets good news. We know that a lot of things will happen throughout the world tonight that will cause us to forget the things that were reported yesterday. But, please TIME, pretty please, give Cicero its rightful break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Olum's statement is as follows: "There has been an awareness in Phi Beta Kappa recently that the tradition of intellectual freedom of the American university is not something to be taken for granted by is something to be fought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Issues Call for Committee on Academic Freedom | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

...true that in the recent past several instances have been flashed on the public screen where student activities were suppressed by academic authorities without very convincing reason. But on the other hand this does not prove that a prairie fire of academic reaction is roaring down upon American colleges. Least of all down upon Harvard, where authorities made a silly mistake in the Browder case and otherwise have given every indication of wishing to toe the straight liberal line in affairs academic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALLY FROM THE IVORY TOWER | 12/9/1939 | See Source »

Granville Hicks, noted author and critic, will give a free, public lecture in the Union on January 15, it was announced today by the Committee for the Extra-Curricular Study of American History, which is sponsoring the address...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hicks to Speak in Union | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

...plugger Hewitt can hold the fort against studies, Lonnie Stowell (now a distance man), and Bob White, who will be recovered from the effects of an appendectomy soon, he'll be doing a grand job. Big Jim Curwen, an All-American 100 man two years ago, is now working out and will be trying to bring his four-lap efforts down to the 53's again. A great deal of laboratory work is the biggest obstacle to Jim's breaking into the 52-second class again, so until the season is well under way, he must be regarded...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Lining Them Up | 12/7/1939 | See Source »

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