Word: dark
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Freshmen unused to the wiles of Cambridge find the art of being a Harvard man harder to master than the study card, class schedule, and H.A.A. ticket embroilment all rolled into one. For one groping in the dark this way it is particularly important to understand that the foremost pleasure of being a Harvard man comes from the fact that there is no such thing...
...extricate the men, women, and children of the country from the mire of disintegration and disillusionment, has made him the most beloved and exemplary character ever to occupy the nation's most important post-and so on- countless incidents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision illuminate the dark recesses of a nation's folly...
...Herring, said. "Won't you bring the Governor up closer?" Nominee Landon took his stance by the President's side and the two grinned amiably at each other as flash bulbs flared. The photographs, centring every eye on Alf Landon in the midst of a mass of dark-suited figures, proved that the Republican nominee had performed his master maneuver, whether planned or accidental, when he put on a white suit that morning...
...arranged a game between the two girls. Helen Wrills won 6-0 in seven minutes. What gave the decision its subsequent importance was the odd chance that Helen Wills went on to become the greatest woman player in the world and that Helen Jacobs' salient characteristic is a dark unshakable determination...
...three cows had the fright of their lives as a trim blue & silver monoplane suddenly dropped down out of the mist to a bumpy landing beside them. As the cows' owner ran up, out o? the plane stepped a black-jowled, slick-&-kinky-haired man wearing a very dark shirt, a very light necktie. In a voice which sounded as if he had a hot potato in his mouth he demanded: "Is this Scotland...