Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduate student. And this bias springs from only one thing: Widener's tremendous size. It is this great hulk that is stifling to undergraduates. Among the four million volumes which comprise the Harvard Library, only one hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom in the stacks so graduate students do not have to walk...
...Roosevelt has said that the duty of the U. S. neutrality patrol is to keep tabs on far-roving warcraft in American waters. His obvious, implicit premise last week was that submarines, since the sneaky creatures cannot be watched, had best be kept clear away. When a reporter asked whether armed merchant ships also might be barred from U. S. ports, the President said that comparing such ships and submarines was like trying to add pears and apples. Orally amplifying his proclamation, he explained that belligerent submarines may not come within the traditional three-mile limit of U. S. coasts...
Palfrey, who is a southpaw, played a smooth game, but the cleverness of Lowman unnerved him. Although he dropped the first set after putting up a game battle, he made a brilliant comeback in the second set and came very close to taking the title away from Lowman...
...Division of History, Government, and Economics still tutors 35 percent of the upperclassmen, but the figures for the past three years show a steady move away from the Division as a whole. History has gained slightly since...
...Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music of the East to which he was subjected in his youth...