Word: awaye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ships will follow at ten-day intervals, crossing the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea in a total of 30 days, stopping at Novorossiisk, Batum and Odessa. Collectivization Day. Every autumn there is fierce squabbling and often fistic battle between Russian farmers and the Soviet grain collectors empowered to cart away the surplus portion of their crops. The collectors pay a fixed low price for what they take, perhaps a fifth of what the grain fetches at clandestine sales. Vexed peasants long ago tried "passive resistance," refused to sow more than enough grain for their personal needs. But ruthless Dictator Joseph...
...thought the defense, was the testimony of Mrs. Clarence Miller. Smiling at the lawyers' horrified faces, she blithely admitted Communist beliefs. Communist teachings. The defense lawyers hurriedly changed plans, did not put her prisoner-husband on the stand. The prosecution was jubilant. Mrs, Miller had given the show away...
...Fogg Museum, took off his shoes, proceeded to bathe his feet. Spying a Chinese student about to enter the museum, he arose and shouted, "I hate Chinese!" Then he tossed the frightened Oriental down the steps. At a group of Jewish undergraduates he likewise bellowed. They shied away, pretending not to notice Sophomore Clark. The reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each year produces a musical comedy and each year, like almost every Harvard society, holds initiations in which absurdity, and failing that...
With Scot MacDonald away, the steering committee of the Labor Party was in undisputed charge of its alert, broad-featured chairwoman, Miss Arabella Susan Lawrence, a rich barrister's daughter who would rather be Laborite than socialite. Last week Miss Lawrence heard rumblings of discord. People were beginning to say that the Prime Minister ought to be home solving the unemployment problem, not gadding about reducing navies. At such times the party executive must put up a front, loose an achievement or two as a sop to criticism. Observers divined the strategy of Arabella Susan Lawrence in the following...
...experience of going to the library desk to take out books assigned for quizzes and hour exams, only to come away empty-handed due to the inadequate supply of copies, is unfortunately becoming a regular occurrence. The fault for this state of affairs does not lie so much on the administration of the library, as upon the instructors who are responsible for having the books used by their courses placed upon the shelves...