Word: choses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claude Pepper on Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "I have sincerely and conscientiously tried to uphold the hand of the man who was trying to help you and whom you chose to serve as your leader by a three-to-one majority. Friends, I am proud of my record in Washington...
...generation of youth has no inhibitions in relation to word use as well as otherwise," Professor Edwin R. Hunter (head of the English department) and Student Bernice E. Gaines examined the freshman class, seniors and the faculty in Maryville College, a small co-educational institution in east Tennessee. They chose 62 words that once were or still are widely considered offensive, asked the students and teachers to indicate whether they used the words: 1) as freely as cat or dog, 2) with a feeling of being bold or modern, 3) only when talking to intimates, 4) never if they could...
...perhaps unfortunate that the organizations represented in the Peace Committee chose for Harvard's first formal and authorized peace demonstration an hour which coincides with a much more dubious movement throughout the nation. But the aims of the Peace Committee have been too plainly expressed to permit confusion...
Late in 1935, dissatisfied with the Pulitzer awards for drama, Manhattan's play critics decided to make annual awards of their own. For 1935-36 they chose as best American play Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, for 1936-37 Anderson's High Tor. Meeting this week, the New York Drama Critics' Circle awarded their 1937-38 plaque to John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men (TIME, Dec. 6), chose Thornton Wilder's Our Town as runner-up, singled out Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll's Shadow and Substance as the season's best foreign...
Unlike most investment houses, the Wall Street brokerage firm of Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.. dealing largely in securities and commodities, last week chose to be optimistic. Reckoning that inventories are now notably depleted and that the slump has been accentuated by the advancing of the Automobile Show from January to November, it noted in a memorandum to customers "that business has actually been doing better during the past two or three months than is generally believed and that there may be some upturn in industrial activity during the ensuing months...