Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus have the tremendous potentialities of radio, especially in the field of education, been generally ignored. Harvard's Radio Workshop with its student workers and faculty advisers will attempt to point the way to the correction of these ills. From every angle it will attack the problem of presentation of ideas through sound. To quote its Constitution: "The object is to study and perfect new techniques for radio in the writing and producing of plays, poetry, and fiction, and effective presentation of political and sociological subjects of a more general educational character, and in the composition of music...
...meet everybody worth meeting, rich or poor, at Cliveden. . . . According to English notions all Americans are insanely hospitable. But Lady Astor is phenomenal even among American hostesses. ... I could prove that Cliveden is a nest of Bolshevism. . . . The Astors have become the representatives of America in England; and any attack on them is in effect an attack on America. . . . Never has a more senseless fable got into the headlines...
...Gandhi died, Britain would have to answer for the consequences. Britain did not want to have a dead Gandhi on its hands, but, if Britain gave in on this point and forced the Thakore Saheb to reform his government, a bad precedent would be set. Then Congress leaders could attack other Indian States and force many a maharaja to give in to an Indian national movement...
...McSweeney with 12 points and Fran Simpson with nine were the big guns in the Crimson attack, and the play of Bill Smith at guard was another feature of the game. Captain Jack Stewart at center and Vic Marans were the other two Harvard starters...
...seemed completely surprised either at the question or Vag's brusque attack. The blue eyes opened in an amused smile...