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Word: callings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad will be limited to ten men on its first overnight trip to of the season, and Lee Bird, Franny Simpson, Jack Penson, Bob James, and Joe Romano got the call to act as reserves. Simpson and Bird have so far seen little service, but the other three have alternated with Rothschild, Finegan, and Buckley in all three gams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOOP CONTESTS SLATED TONIGHT AND TOMORROW | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...Civil Liberties Committee of the Harvard Student Union wishes to congratulate the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on its call for a committee to preserve academic freedom. The need for such a committee grows daily more apparent as college after college after college, with the exceptions of Yale and M. I. T., follows Harvard's rules of etiquette in refusing to allow Earl Browder to speak before student organizations in college buildings. We have, as yet, no assurance that the Harvard authorities are convinced that they "made a silly mistake in the Browder case" nor that they will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

When Mid-years drag around and the yearly epidemic begins, there is only one all-encompassing piece of advice on tutoring schools to be handed out: Don't. This year it is not merely academic idealism and intellectual honesty which inspires the Crimson's call for a concerted boycott or blockade or cram parlors; there is no need to invoke sacrifices for a noble cause. A cool-headed, pragmatic consideration of facts should now prove entirely sufficient to convince even the most hardboiled loafer of the inadvisability of acquiring per express a canned Harvard education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS TO A NEWER WORLD | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...showed that even art and culture are degenerating. Originally they appealed to the head, but now their call is to the senses. "Contemporary art is pathological," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOROKIN SCORNS WAR TO END DICTATORSHIP | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...Willkie wound up with an ironic tribute to the public-relations finesse of his opponents, who issued their statements to the press at night, forced newsmen to call Willkie by phone for his replies, which ran at the tail end of stories in morning papers. Said he: "Apparently, the foes of the utilities prefer to work under cover of darkness. At least their strategy requires me to stay at home at night, to be on hand for inquiries from the press, and that is probably salutary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Eaton to the Wars | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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