Word: basked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...points: 1) The Disarmament Conference will not act on Soviet Commissar Maxim Litvinoffs proposal that it turn itself into the Permanent Conference for Promotion of Peace but will submit this idea to all governments; 2) the main Disarmament Conference will adjourn this week until autumn but several committees will bask along in Geneva all summer; 3) the work of the Conference shall proceed "without prejudice to private conversations on which the governments will desire to enter in order to facilitate the attainment of final success by the return of Germany to the Conference...
...millions of our countrymen and American youth our beloved Lindy remains No. 1 Hero, who, by his modesty and good sense, his refusal to capitalize his fame, his shunning of publicity rather than ever seeking to bask in the limelight, is a model that many of our public men might well pattern after...
...uninvitingly marked "Dean of Harvard College," though, there sits a kindly gentle enough looking man who will spring up at once when you enter, or even come to the door for you, and who will offer you a chair as though there were nothing better to do than to bask in the afternoon sunlight which is streaming in the window, or warm the hands before a fire burning in the grate. After you have stopped admiring the bright yellow oriental rug on the floor, you will probably become aware that the Dean is talking to you, asking you questions...
...chosen from a given list. It combines some phase of History with Government or Economics. Seniors who are out for honors are advised to take one of the courses of a more advanced status. It is in these that one comes really to know the professor and to bask in the radiance of his inspiration. Here one really comes in contact with the active part of history...
...advisee in order to become acquainted with them, a suggestion which may another year result in more than a nodding acquaintanceship between Adviser and Advisee. No mere suggestion, however, will ever dispense with the utter ignorance of courses and fields in which the majority of Advisers are content to bask. Not until the College insists that its advisers possess first of all a reasonably, complete knowledge of a t least the more popular fields of concentration, including a thorough appreciation of the possibilities of distribution, and secondly, a reasonable amount of personal interest in each advisee, will the system approach...