Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred thousand books interest them. Yet these very books in demand are hidden away among innumerable tomes which contain the last printed word on any subject. Graduate students have access to the book stacks; they have stalls placed right where the books they need are shelved; now there is even a bathroom in the stacks so graduate students do not have to walk to the basement like other library users. Thus the graduate benefits at the expense of the undergraduate...
...Following a visit by Eleanor Roosevelt to the Pacific Coast, the San Francisco Chronicle last week reported: "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt stayed away from politics. . . . Even when she lunched, somewhat surprisingly, with A. P. and Mario Giannini (who are being investigated by her husband's SEC) she kept the conversation on the weather and the [San Francisco] Fair. Her only lapse came when she picked up a newspaper and read that the President had issued a plea to the A. F. of L. for labor unity. 'Dear Franklin,' smiled Mrs. Roosevelt in the manner of an adult discussing...
...home was ready, three neat rooms on Manhattan's East Side. Most magnificent of all its furnishings was the gas range. Dazzled Amelia had never even seen one. Angelo proudly showed her how it worked, went...
...Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General Frank Murphy: "Our dynamic attorney general, who has been so enthusiastically and tirelessly swooping by airplane all over the country in pursuit of lesser violators of the law . . . has been strangely indifferent and listless in the case of Browder. . . . Even Browder must be surprised, perhaps slightly contemptuous. . . ." Thereupon a spokesman for Frank Murphy replied: "It obviously seems to be a curious coincidence that the Republican National Committee issues a statement tonight. . . . The facts are that the department has been actively preparing this case and others . . . and that it expects decisive...
...Cashman of the American: "An even tussle. Dartmouth hasn't enough material to outman Harvard; if Blaik should need an eighth back today, he wouldn't know where to find...