Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That was the accumulated interest on a fund which one of Miss Smith's relatives long ago set up for the care of the church fence. Rector Livingston had put the money into the general church fund, pointing out that the sexton took care of the fence anyway. Miss Julia Smith thought otherwise...
...done to meet the situation. Moreover business has improved and our psychology is better. It is not so much a consideration of the merits of a different system although there is a general impression we are heading towards Utopia; it is not a consideration whether things would have improved anyway; in any case, it is heartfelt approval of the new invigorating influence which has entered the government and of the "new deal" for people of small incomes. This change has been encouraging in that it reveals that the College has joined the country in its decision for a change...
...side he buttresses his already sturdy fortune by canny trading among the hotheads of a real-estate boom. When a lynching scare (in outline the Scottsboro case) threatens to undermine the town's prosperity, the Colonel risks his popularity to preserve law & order. When the boom collapses anyway and there is a run on the bank, the Colonel quickly becomes the most hated man in town. But nothing really hits him hard until his daughter turns out to be a different species of flower from the one the Colonel always considered synonymous with Southern womanhood. That breaks...
...merry undergraduates are enthuslastic about those changes in exams, probation, and attendance that the College has made. Possibly they are a bit too Bolshevistic. Anyway, the following remark was made by an apparently abused oarsman the other day: "Say, I'm going to sue the College before they have nothing but a few optional lectures to offer a guy. These days a fellow has got to get his money's worth...
...might because he was always the cleverest, anyway...