Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more ominous part of the pronouncement, however, is its indication of the extent to which we have allowed ourselves to be motivated by the impulses of hatred. In our passion for justice and our sympathy for persecuted peoples we have allowed our emotions to run away with us until we would correct that wrong by the imposition of further injustice upon the German people. . . . Once we give in to hatred and bitterness we have begun to be like unto them (the Fascist nations). For the Fascists love their friends and hate their enemies, too; and what do ye more than...
...hereby declare war," he said. But although Phi Beta Kappa men thrilled to the campaign title, "To the Defense," they found it hard to know just where to start in on the business of rescuing the world from destruction. It was agreed at length to begin by doing away with all "isms." That should be easy enough. But before that job could be attended to, something had to be done about the gold standard. Ever since the U. S. Government increased the price of gold, the Phi Beta Kappa Society had been losing money hand over fist on its gold...
...daughter; he delays proposing to her so long that she is wooed and married by his nephew before he has even heaved a deep sigh. But the minute Mr. Wheaton's poisoned sugarplum comes along, Uncle Tim gets his back up. He succeeds in keeping it away from the hungry village, and if he isn't happy in the end-well, a slowpoke can't have everything...
...Wheeling, W. Va., a 16-year-old student rifled a high-school soda shop and took away $4 in nickels. Police easily trailed him to his home, two blocks from the school. Reason: he had a hole in his pocket...
...section had no complaint to the effect that the Ulenmen would have won in the home waters. But with a wistful sigh they reflected that it would be nice if Princeton and every other college in the league had similar, standardized pools. If that were true, a team competing away from home would not be confronted with conditions as unfamiliar to them as a crater in a football gridiron would be to the pigskin-pushers...