Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance the Federal budget at once. I say to him-'How?' Sometimes he says-'How should I know? That is your job.' Sometimes he says-'Cut the budget straight through 10% or 20%.' Then I take from my desk drawer a fat book and it is apparent at once that he never has seen or read the budget of the Government of the United States...
...Queen Elizabeth delayed proceedings for a five-minute chat with kilted, Black Watch Captain S. S. T. Cantlie, but from then on Mayor Houde stole the show. He and his pert wife stole the Queen and King respectively from Dominion bigwigs, hovered over them while they signed the Golden Book at City Hall, led them on a breathless four-hour tour of the town, the Mayor taking bows right and left before throngs, some of whom paid as high as $30 for window seats for the show...
...President Jules Romains is the short, highbrowed, big-nosed author of Men of Good Will, whose desire to report the whole life of his time in one novel has carried his book to its 15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois...
...contacting the world beyond the class room window, the Undergraduate Faculty adds the benefit of experience to the college curriculum. A new element--the combination of the text book with actual reality--broadens and enriches studies which have sended to sterility. The examples of Harvard, Manhattanville, Radcliffe and Brown are a challenge to other colleges. With its service both to the student and to the community, the Undergraduate Faculty should find a useful place on campuses throughout the nation...
...Ithacans had a limited amount of spring training and their early season games were little short of disastrous. But ever since then, they have brushed aside every rival in their path and now seem headed for a story-book finish in E.I.L. baseball. Harvard caught them just at the start of their upswing in the first game between the two teams at Cambridge, and the result was a 12 to 3 Cornell victory...