Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dick Harlow directed the final tuning up operations before the Naval launching, it was evident that the entire squad felt that they were on the eve of their first major victory in three years. There is no overconfidence--the coaching staff has taken care of that--but the underdog spirit of two weeks ago has gone the way of Princeton invincibility. Oldtimers around Soldiers Field have pronounced the psychological condition of the Crimson team perfect for the clash tomorrow...
...Saturday before election, they made their last big speeches, leaving only afterthoughts and last appeals for their election-eve broadcasts. In Madison Square Garden, flanked by his mother, wife and daughter, Franklin Roosevelt poured out his heartfelt bitterness at those who resented his efforts to uplift the U. S.: "We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace-business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering...
Alone with a microphone, after all the crowds, the shouts, the flaring lights, Alf Landon spoke in a voice surprisingly calm and deep. It grew ever quieter, slower, more halting as he reached the close of his election eve broadcast, last speech of his campaign. "Our healing . . . will be revealed by the still small voice-that speaks to the conscience-and the heart -prompting us to a wider-and wiser- humanity." On came the voice of the announcer, reverent and tender, as if speaking the epilog of a sad and stirring drama: "And so, quiet falls over the study...
...done more for that system than the New Deal. Seldom in U. S. history have the reports of private industry played into the hands of a Presidential nominee so neatly as those for the third quarter of 1936. The first 76 corporations to publish their figures on the eve of election showed aggregate profits of $71,480,000, a 47% increase over the third quarter of 1935. Some typical reports...
...begins with Cripure cruelly rebuffing one of his old students who, on the eve of leaving for the front, has come to him for advice and help. It carries him through his classes, where his students pull all their dirty tricks, through his drunken afternoon, when agonizing memories assail him, into the climactic, ridiculous night, when he finds himself challenged to a duel. Around him tragedies worse than his own are piling up. The headmaster's son has been shot; French troops have mutinied; there have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front...