Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...latest book, "This Peace," he propounds the theory that "in the guise of hypocrisy and demoralized pacifism" Czechoslovakia was betrayed by European democracies so that Fascism would be strengthened for its role as hired gunman against Russia--a role which Hitler promises to play in "Mein Kampf." This brief essay condemns, in language at once controlled and vitriolic, the "pro-fascist" English statesmen for their leading role in this "foulest page of modern history...
...deep drifts of artificial snow, cold storage poultry, painfully quaint mannerisms and hideously false joviality which load this tender fable, certain genuine bits stand out by contrast. One is Reginald Owen's well modulated performance as Scrooge, which should long remain a model for enthusiastic neophyte actors who essay this role in high-school productions of the same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least...
...Toomey. Perhaps those two windmill-tilters are tired after their great fight of last November when they saved the city from the dripping jaws of Harvard, or perhaps they read the article in the December Harvard Progressive on "The Case for Cambridge" and found therein food for thought. This essay directed at the ill-will that exists between Harvard and Cambridge, gathers a mass of facts on the matter and interprets them in a reasoned and thoughtful manner, though its conclusions will be much debated...
...field of study is economics. He is on the Student Council, the Class Album Committee, the Guardian magazine editorial staff, and the Student Union, and has taken part in debating. He was winner of the Briggs Prize book, given annually to the freshman who writes the outstanding midyear examination essay in the European history survey course...
Thus the last drawback would be removed to the practice of including prepared essays in as many courses as possible. If ghost writing were eliminated and the burden on seniors from too many written papers relieved, the advantages from such a course of action should convince even the most conservative members of the University that an essay is a more searching and a more accurate test of a student's ability than an hour exam...