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Word: contente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hill rather than up. Most, however, have shown expected improvement which ordinarily comes with the warmer days. Notable satisfaction is found with John Herrick '38 who has a chance in the discus this Saturday. A profusion of stars is conspicuously absent, however, and track fans at Harvard must be content in letting this be a crew year...

Author: By Rockwell Hollands, | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/4/1937 | See Source »

...content with the rebuff which the University administered last year in connection with the 500th anniversary of Heidelberg and the similar problem of a Harvard representative, the Reich, with Brontosaurian lightness of touch, attempted to worm into Harvard affections by persuading Ernst Hanfstaengel, '09, official pianist to Hitler, to offer a scholarship. This scheme, nipped at a discouragingly early stage in its development, Germany has come across once, more, hoping that the balmy spring days along the Charles will lure the University into a trace in which anything will be possible--even the acceptance of a third bid from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NEIN, DANKE" | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...that he was thoroughly tired of modern moppets who lead him a romping chase through the exhibits, make sport of his educational efforts. Said he: "Kids are worse than they ever were. They used to play tag around the mastodons and the paleozoic fossils. Now they're not content unless they carve their initials in the wood exhibits and the display cases. . . . I even used to try to figure out in advance what they were going to do and then try to prevent it. But do you think that helped? Not a bit. Every move I made they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Casey's Kids | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...break was played by the week's premier rumor -that the Treasury was about to cut the price of gold, now $35 per oz. One of the oddities of the New Deal's monetary legislation is that only the President has power to change the official gold content of the Roosevelt dollar, and then within fixed limits (50% to 60% of the Hoover dollar). Its present value is about 59#162; , so that its theoretical value could be revised in only one direction-down, which would indicate higher gold prices, not lower. Yet the sole U. S. market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Not Right Now | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...appreciated in Japan. Beginning the study of art in Munich in 1902, he treated Russian folk-lore and regends in a personal and romantic style still venturing into pure non-objective April in 1909. He was the first artist whose work consisted of pure form and had no subject content...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

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