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Word: calle (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When men die, friends and admirers do more than mourn; they call to mind the deeds for which these men will always live. Chester Noyes Greenough was liked and respected within and without the University. As teacher he was known as a masterful lecturer. As Dean and House Master he was known as one who combined administrative ability with the real virtues of devotion and humor. To those who have been and are undergraduates he will perhaps best be remembered for humanizing the relationship between student and University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR MEMORY'S SAKE | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Joseph Stalin's letter contained not only an appeal but also a statement: "The aid of the international proletariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Party's Party | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Laborites proposed a motion of censure, which if carried would call for the fall of the Cabinet. The Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, shrilled: "Mussolini is a bankrupt dictator, yet it is just at this time that the Prime Minister goes whining to him for an agreement on any terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Expulsion of Eden | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...temporary jail, the crowd smashed windows and set it afire with wads of gasoline-soaked rags. Some of the mob kept fire engines away by lying prone in the street. Not finding the prisoner, the crowd next attacked the police station, burned it also. Next call was the stone Federal building, where Federal troops were drawn up with loaded rifles. As the mob approached. General Manuel Contreras shouted: "Justice will be meted out to this prisoner! Justice will be meted out to this prisoner!" but the crowd swept on. A volley crashed out over their heads, then another straight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Death at Aunty Jane | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...call upon all those who feel as we do to refrain from voting at all. Perhaps by our very silence, the insignificance of these planned and plotted elections will be apparent. You can fool some of the people some of the time . . . but four years of subtle tyranny is too much. Sic semper tyrrannis. T. Ryden Skinner '38. Jay W. Kaufmann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

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