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...Suppose Folsom pump was NOT operating at maximum capacity. What difference did that make to us? Suppose Mr. Little of Standish Foundry broke three blood vessels trying to refinance the corporation. No difference. Look at the senior midshipmen. What were they doing? Sitting in their billets, passing much scuttlebutt amongst them, lounging at the student club and laughing knowingly when we mentioned cases. Why not follow their example and laugh at the whole case question as well...

Author: By Alem Dworkin, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 6/4/1943 | See Source »

Gilt-hero Payne flits from Broadway to Banf, a cozy little hideway of 2000 rooms in the Rockies, hot on the trail of his lost love. It's the standard routine--the continental pursuit ending deep amongst nature's element. It had to be that way. Payne is in his element when he gets into the woods. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Hollywood and Caesar Romero can portray the species. Between the cavortings of these over-anxious characters, the screen is crammed with dancer John...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moviegoer | 2/19/1943 | See Source »

Other newspapers were significantly mum on the matter, and the City was horrified at such bold Government interference with private enterprise. But uncompromising Vegetarian Cripps said coldly: "Inefficiency in management is as great a breach of duty to the country as absenteeism amongst the workers. The country cannot afford to and would not tolerate the waste of labor either by absenteeism or through bad direction or management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: For the Workers | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...illiterate Ministry to the Churches when our present Ministers shall be in the Dust. And as we were thinking and consulting how to effect this great Work it pleased God to stir up the heart of one Mr. Harvard (a godly Gentleman and a lover of learning, there living amongst us) to give the one halfe of his Estate (it being in all about 1700 pounds) towards the erecting of the Colledge; and all his Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Harvard's Home Site Becomes Boston Playfield | 10/29/1942 | See Source »

...these cool, verdant hills, where the air is crisp and forests are virgin, studying with the several hundred girls in this liberal and progressive college, there recently arrived a Harvard man, a fugitive from the Dramatic Club. One of ten kept men amongst several hundred beautiful women is Robert F. Keahey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So' I say to This Guy You're Crazy, He Can't Be there | 9/30/1942 | See Source »

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