Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moaning out, all alone, a death rattle...
...Warsaw and the rest of Poland solemnly commemorated the fourth anniversary of the death of Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Polish hero and dictator, but not Danzig. There the Nazi Senate prohibited any ceremonies on the ground that in the present tension they could not guarantee order. Polish retort was that since the Germans could not keep order, the Polish Army should move in and do it. When a Polish bookshop proprietor displayed the old Marshal's picture his windows were smashed. Nazi police conveniently arrived too late to arrest the vandals...
...brought out at Suffolk Probate Court yesterday that the late Mrs. Adams, wife of a Boston textile tycoon, before her death last year expressed the fear that Harvard and possibly M.I.T. were fostering radical doctrines...
Above all, the University must recognize the importance of what it is attempting. This is a death-struggle. Harvard has staked her reputation and soundness against the existence of the cram parlors. If they emerge from it they will be all the stronger, and perhaps impregnable for the future. The drive to meet their challenge must be vigorous and sustained...
Robert Lee Frost, a ninth-generation New Englander (whose Yankee father expressed his Southern sympathies by naming his son after General Robert E. Lee), was born in San Francisco, where his father had become embroiled in politics, in 1875. After his father's death, his schoolteacher mother moved the family back to New England. Frost went to high school in Lawrence, Mass. At school, a passage in Virgil's Georgics suddenly made him understand what it was to be a poet. He began to write; but meanwhile, after Dartmouth proved too academic...