Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said President Roosevelt (on Federal aid for education) : "Our aid, for many reasons, financial and otherwise, must be confined to lifting the level at the bottom. . . . [On freedom] : When the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...
...over in 124 seconds by the clock.* Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped onto their chairs to see over the heads of those who had jumped onto their chairs in front, the match looked like a crap game. In the ring everyone seemed to be crouched on the canvas. Referee Arthur Donovan was counting-three, four, five-over the dazed challenger...
...Challenger Max Schmeling announced that he had been fouled by a punch to the kidneys. He was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital, via a circuitous route to avoid the hysterical celebrations in Harlem. Meanwhile, millions of Germans, gathered around their radios all over the Reich at three o'clock in the morning, wept into their beer. "Impossible," they wailed when the broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three...
...mile-long parade of alumni, led by the 25th reunion class, will start at 1:30, under the direction of Alan J. Lowrey '13, of San Francisco, Chief Marshall. The Stadium exercises, taking place on a special stage erected at the "Bowl" end, are scheduled for 2 o'clock...
Beginning at 11:30 o'clock this morning with the literary exercises in the Kirkland House triangle, Class Day, gayest festival of the Harvard year, will be celebrated all today and far into the night. The age-old confetti battle in the Stadium and the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball series in the afternoon, are other highlights of the holiday program, in which graduating Seniors and their guests, share the spotlight with the reunion classes back in Cambridge for a week of renewal of the old ties...