Word: detective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's what we need around here--a little pep with a capital P--more spirit--loyalty to college--go and action--what Harvard has always stood for--I may be only a Freshman--but as soon as I came here I could detect a difference between the spirit in Milford High and the spirit here. Of course that isn't much of a school but we used to have rallies every Friday night before the games and bonfires before the big games and the team felt that every fellow was behind them, fighting in there--You seem...
...Committee and his Wet friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves to go Wet if the referendum should go Wet. Up rose Nominee McCormick to declare...
...have to face the problem presented by newspaper publishers, department stores and advertising art services who use or adapt Vogue cover designs, illustrations, decorations or other material and offer it to the public as their own without asking our permission. . . We are asking our readers to help us detect these flagrant violations of a fundamental and well-understood law. If you observe any Vogue cover design ... or other material reproduced in any magazine, newspaper, catalogue or other publications, will you help us to maintain the standards of American business honesty by reporting the infringement...
...Yale Record, like its Cantabrigian counterpart, The Harvard Lampoon, has seen fit to ridicule the plan, and several undergraduates and younger alumni have contributed severe criticism to the columns of The Yale Daily News. The chief danger which they profess to detect is an undesirable "paternalism" which would force youths of varied origins and interests into an unwelcome intimacy, seriously interfere with the freedom of fraternities and other social organizations and possibly restrict the students to a boarding-house existence of prescribed hours of meals, study and sleep. In other words, it is charged that the proposed system, admittedly designed...