Word: blights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wracked by a fever of 103, South America's greatest champion against North America tumbled tragically last week from Power. He fought the Monroe Doctrine. He would have no truck with the Kellogg Pact. He flouted the Pan-American projects of Calvin Coolidge, did his best to blight the effect of Herbert Hoover's South American goodwill tour. Yet few U. S. citizens ever knew the name of their Great Enemy: Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen...
...Blight the life of babykins...
...lectures last winter, the material presented was often diluted with trivialities far more than was necessary to keep the course within the mental range of a Freshman. Similarly, the emphasis placed upon various topics discussed was not always commensurate with their real importance. As for that perennial blight of large courses, section meetings, they are still of little value to the man who has covered the assignments for himself. But time should remedy the first defect and the second will be solved when section men can be chosen for their teaching ability and not for their scholastic achievements. Meanwhile Professor...
...News" would find a similar hostility to Prohibition in any girls' college in the country. Mrs. Sabin seems to suggest that either the young women of America have acquired a taste for light wines and beer or have developed an eagerness to put an end to a hypocritical national blight. An ancient propriety, not particularly encouraged in modern feminine circles, points to only the latter...
Lawyers. Students of Dishonesty have recently had an absorbing spectacle in New York City, where the blight has been found to pervade even the courts which are supposed to ferret it out. An investigation of Magistrates' Courts, following upon a curious dinner attended by notable criminals and given to City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale (TIME, Jan. 6), has led to an expose of extensive, sly malpractice. Sample: Last week one Joseph Wolf man was apprehended playing checkers in a Jersey City Y. M. C. A. For four years he has appeared in Manhattan courts, a bogus lawyer who declared...