Word: backing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S reporter on People (TIME, July 3, p. 28) should go back to his Latin class. The point of the Oxford University orator's pun, in presenting Justice Frankfurter for the D.C.L., was that instead of quoting the poet correctly-Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas-he said reorum, changing the poet's "things" into the more appropriate "legal arguments...
...other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being able to rid the President of that half-halter. And the reason he was not sure stemmed straight back to the spirit of resurgence in Congress, the determination of many a Senator to show the President that Congress, not he, is boss. Among the older Senators it stemmed back also to the great fight on Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations, the post-War rebirth of Isolation and mandatory...
...rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...
...still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook's 'jungle Ways...
...Cambridge, Mass., 92 years ago, Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa chapter banished liquor from its dinner table, for cause. Last week, saturated with its ice-watery annual banquets, reunioning members unanimously voted to bring liquor back...