Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time: 1919. The place: a Bierstube in Munich. The characters: Nazi Poet Dietrich Eckart and Sturmer Ernst Roehm; another man, at a table apart from them, moody, alone. Eckart speaks: "We must have a fellow at the head who won't wince at the rattle of a machine gun. The rabble must be given a good fright. He mustn't be brainy. . . . I would rather have a stupid, vain jackass who can give the Reds a juicy answer . . . than a dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must...
...results aren't too amazing, for the simple reason that Barnet doesn't have the soloists to play Duke's stuff, and his fast Basic tunes fall apart because his rhythm section just isn't equal to the task...
Third place is still in doubt with Kirkland and Dunster only a half game apart and with one game apiece to play. Since the Deacons have to play the champion Puritans tomorrow while Dunster has drawn the hapless Eliot eleven which has yet to win a game, the Punsters have the edge on the position...
...TIME knows of no factual errors in its story, apart from the statement that Professor Burbank quit Harvard (he quit the chairmanship of the economics department). TIME amply indicated that Harvard's "young man" problem is a tough one. TIME sticks to its main point: that in dealing with the problem, Harvard has caused widespread dissatisfaction among its faculty and students...
...Prepare for cavalry! Form square!' each man dismounts. . . . The rifles are lifted out of their clips. . . . The machines are placed upside down. . . . Lastly, each man, as he lies or kneels down behind his machine, sets his wheels spinning round with a touch of his finger. Such a fence, apart from the chevaux de frise of bayonets behind it, forms an obstacle which few horses, if any, would face; and the men inside, in perfect security, can pick off the advancing horsemen with deadly effect...