Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intention of speaking. I have been dragged here by force," Candidate Stalin was pleased ponderously to jest. "But so long as I am here I may as well say somethinging already has been said by others! . . . Elections in other countries are conducted as clashes of class against class. There is pressure by the sharks of Capitalism! We have no pressure here by the haves or have nots. . . . None can put pressure on the people to manipulate the elections. That is why our elections are the only free democratic elections in the world. . . . Comrades, on my side I assure...
During the War, when George Bernard Shaw wanted to give a symbolic habitation and a name to two great elements of 20th-century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak House" and the other "Horseback Hall." Last week in Washington, an exhibition at the new branch gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall...
Alumni placements, supervised by James F. Dwinell '02, included 69 members of the Class of '37, and totalled 163, a gain of 18 over 1935-36. Average salary for graduate students leaped from $1470 to $1752, with smaller gains for Seniors and other alumni. Seniors averaged $1190 a year, making the cash value of a graduate degree according to these figures...
...expected of the military mind; but temporary success in large areas of China is not improbable. Chinese nationalism has only just begun to wipe out the old opportunist individualism, and the Japanese will be able to trot out a horde of antiquated politicians of the "Chinese traitor" class, who for a full rice bowl will act as a toothless front for Japanese control. This has succeeded, so far, in Manchuria...
Keppel reported the Conference disclosed that at Harvard more students turn out for class elections than at many of the other institutions. At Cornell, 550 out of a student body of 3000 is termed "pretty good". In the Harvard Senior elections alone 573 ballots were cast last year...