Word: beards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Answer by Beard. Though Senator Norris shunned the Watson questions, they did find an able and authentic answerer among the Progressives. He was famed Historian Charles Austin Beard (Rise of American Civilization; American Party Battle) and his responses, based on ''the Progressive opinion of the country." came closer to summarizing the conference's position and purpose on matters of broad policy than any other statement there made. Excerpts...
...Beard also flayed Congress for "frittering away thousands of precious hours on petty and trifling bills"; for "turning executive officers loose" under too general laws; for barring Cabinet members from floor debates; for "comic opera" procedure...
...chner worked all his tense, young pity for the downtrodden. Wozzeck is a poor bewildered soldier, stationed in a small German city in peacetime. His captain bullies him, a crackbrain doctor experiments on him, his mistress philanders with the drum-major, who has chest like a bull and a beard like a lion." Twenty-six terse, stark scenes tell the tragedy. Wozzeck stabs his mistress, drowns himself. At the end, while the news is gibbered through the streets, their child rides about on his hobbyhorse...
...following men will represent the Freshmen: Foils: J. H. Beard '34; J. G. Hurd '34; J. L. Harris '34; W. M. Kilcullen '34. Epee: C. L. Dyer '34; Hurd; Beard. Sabre: J. L. Dexter '34; Beard; Kilcullen...
...races left new marks in the world record book as well as in the pine track: the 70-yd high hurdles, and the 1⅞-mi. relay. Lanky, pale-faced Percy Beard of Alabama equalled the world record in both his heats for the hurdles and then led dark-haired Lee Sentman, last year's champion, and Gene Record of Harvard, intercollegiate outdoor champion, in the final. His time of 8.5 sec. took one-tenth of a second off the U. S. record. The Penn Relay team won their race easily. They were anchored by Carl Coan who, generally...