Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while we made so little progress that we were forced to open a small date bureau, never dreaming in the world that the idea would ever take hold, but about the second night we fixed up nearly half of the Business School with dates for their Columbus Day dance," she boasted. Miss Slote was very careful to affirm that the date bureau would be abandoned as soon as the 'Group' made some noticeable impression on Harvard boys, and that it was not an end in itself but merely the means...
...ever the Big Three need to stick together in danger, now is the time. One side of the Eternal Triangle is collapsing. One stem of the race is vanishing. In a feature article, the usually unsensational New York Times announced that "Old Nassan's graduates were failing to a striking degree to reproduce themselves . . . and are dying out with amazing rapidity . . . The men now in college will have few descendants in six generations...
Bishop Manning, head of the Episcopal Church in New York City, declared in a sermon, "Our sympathies, our moral support, and whatever ever aid we can rightly give at this time must be with those who at untold cost are upholding the principles and ideals of human life in which we believe." President Seymour of Yale warned that "a defeat, complete or even partial, of the Western democracies in the present war must be regarded as a disaster of the first magnitude for this country." President Conant foresaw grim eventualities if Germany should win. "I believe that if these countries...
Emerson was proud of his prickly protégé Thoreau, called him "As free and erect a mind as any I have ever met.' Just the same, two years of Thoreau as handyman around the place was more than enough for Emerson. Said witty Elizabeth Hoar: "I love Henry but do not like him," and Emerson, who knew how she felt, often quoted her wisecrack. Even closer to Henry was his crony, Poet Ellery Channing, who wrote the first Thoreau biography. Channing once confessed: "I have never been able to understand what he meant by his life...
...sense of defeat moves very swiftly, it has no time to become tragic and explicit, and therefore suffering never quite becomes spiritual. No state is ever an end in itself, is ever scrutinized and preserved. [People] do not know the true meaning of wisdom, of evil, of peace...