Word: cravenness
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Yardlings, the stigma of weakness is upon you! It is up to you to show the powers that be that you are not a craven, crawling, spinc less, lot and that true to Harvard tradition you can riot with the best of them Are you Men or Mice...
...pompously ignorant, and as, madly lavish, as movie producers are commonly known to be. But this is only a beginning. Somebody is made to ask, "Who is Franklin Roosevelt? Chief Justice?" and there you have a sample of the political satire. A very jerky individual ingeniously dubbed Yule Craven bites off a series of excessively clever, occasionally lascivious remarks, and there you have parodied a member of the stage. This impersonation is, by the way, most brilliantly handled by Paul Killiam, Jr., '37, familiar to the followers of the Dramatic Club's doings. Surrealism, safe from parody because nobody could...
...most famed isolationists, Borah of Idaho and Johnson of California, both veterans of the League fight of 1919. For those oldsters, isolation means that the U. S. shall not only mind its own business, but shall also stand up for its rights. To them, the Pittman proposal seemed a craven yielding up of the great right of freedom of the seas, for which the nation had stood through all its history. Furthermore, they declaimed, it would not bring peace, but war. Since only two nations have navies big enough to do a cash & carry business with the U. S., this...
Reputedly suffering from a tropical disease, bluff British Promoter Francis William Rickett, who wangled Standard Vacuum Oil Co.'s short-lived Ethiopian oil concession of 1935 (TIME, Sept. 9. 1935 et seq.), resigned as Master of Foxhounds of the Craven Hunt in Berkshire when his doctors forbade him to ride for ten months...
...allocations of wave lengths will be scrupulously avoided." Two years ago Congress overwhelmingly rejected the Fess and Wagner-Hatfield bills calling for a definite allocation of wave bands for educational purposes. Last week more cold water was thrown on that hope when Chief Engineer T. A. M. Craven of the Federal Communications Commission flatly told an engineers' sub-committee of the Conference: "In talking with some educational experts, I find that they envision a future requirement of something in the order of 15,000 stations to serve the 127,000 school districts in this country alone. . . . The present radio...