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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the announcement yesterday of the undergraduate plans for Harvard's big birthday party next September, the celebration is beginning to assume its proper magnitude in the eyes of the students. It is unfortunate that up to the present time most of the plans which have been released to the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "TO THY JUBILEE THRONG" | 3/4/1936 | See Source »

As a peasant child who comes to Kansas the son of an ignorant,, tremendously and mysticly religious, and highly ambitious farmer, Peter Franzman appears as a stock character in American fiction. But he is by no means allowed to remain so. Through three hundred horrible pages Peter turns from the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 3/3/1936 | See Source »

This indication that Mr. Eden favors maintaining the tension between Britain and Italy spurred Labor M.P.'s to ask him whether His Majesty's Government are in earnest about sooner or later screwing up the League of Nations to the point of hurling really drastic Sanctions against Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pigs in Policy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Matter for Indifference. Meanwhile at the Foreign Office last week Anthony Eden faced the startling fact that Benito Mussolini had somehow obtained and made public in Rome a confidential report to the British Government on the Ethiopian situation made last June by six expert British civil servants: two from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pigs in Policy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Same year New York's President of Police Commissioners Theodore Roosevelt took a leaf from current melodrama, declared: "There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American . . . bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Forum's Fifty | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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