Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White wash Tigers. Spreyer Crimson score Grose fast, if it a Pearson further thought. The Wieman's chance isn't Worth much--Weishelt, he can't Winston, Were going to Wade through little Aubray. If we can Helden the Balentine we'll Tierney down the field. Oh Meyerhols your breath. But all your Jackson the Crimson for all's Wells that ends well. Alterdice are for Harvard--Will Rice to the occasion...
Still the Isolationists struggled on, insisting on the closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week...
...word in inverted commas because the book is in fact crowded with theories which are carefully to be distinguished from the stuff of doctoral theses. Mr. Van Doren's comment on Falstaff's style is a case in point: "(Falstaff) being old and fat, he is short of breath and so must be brief of phrase . . . He has made the most of this limitation. Artist that he is, he has accepted its challenge and employed it in effects that express his genius with a notable and economical directness. His speech then is not merely brief; it is repetitive, it rolls...
...Harvard Crimson, under Blair Clark's supervision took its stand with one leg solidly behind the Allies: "The best chance of our remaining neutral is the success of Allied arms." But in the next breath the Crimson added: "Americans wishing to remain neutral must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price -Allies win or lose...
When President Conant spoke in chapel yesterday, he urged in one breath that Americans "recall their mind to the tasks at home," while in his next he warned that this country must guard against the "final disaster" of a "peace" based on bitterness and hate...