Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only courses at Harvard which violate the liberal ideal, and they were chosen largely because of their prominence and their popularity; others, such as Aerial Photography, give equal substance to Dr. Flexner's view that the liberal arts college is coming to be an ideal honored more in the breach than in the observance...
...lynchings are a conviction of the legal system under which they exist. Unless the lawyers of the country shake off their professional squeamishness against change the stage will be set for ku kluxers, vigilantes, and "crazed mobs" to step into the breach...
...depriving the whole University of one of its most impressive spectacles. Certainly the Army game has become second only to Yale in the estimation of both players and spectators. It is rapidly reaching the status of a permanent Harvard tradition. Leaving aside the fact that it is a startling breach of hospitality to hold such a demonstration, is it fair to the rest of the University for such a small group to give a false impression of the appreciation of the Army game as felt by the University as a whole? Surely there is no reason for greeting the Cadets...
...finance committee of International Harvester Co., sometime husband of the late Edith Rockefeller Mc Cormick and of Operasinger Ganna Walska; by Rhoda Tanner Doubleday of Santa Barbara, Calif., onetime wife of Felix Doubleday (adopted son of the late Publisher Frank N. Doubleday) ; for $1,500,000, for breach of promise. Charge: that Mr. McCormick showed himself an "assiduous devotee," wrote over 50 love letters, made and later retracted a verbal promise of marriage. Died, Grace Fryer, 35, onetime painter of luminous watch dials in the Orange, N. J. plant (now closed) of U. S. Radium Corp. ; of radium sarcoma (cancer...
...Professional football, I really believe, is much cleaner than college football," "Lone Star" continued in response to a query, "and it's clean for the reason that the pre players are fighting for their livelihood and any breach of the unwritten law results in the players being ganged. Among professionals there is a fact agreement not to resort to dirty factics. Because of this the coaches teach the players how to work just as effectively by playing clean. The men-cooperate by keeping in training and taking a genuine interest in the game. The result is that the game...