Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...health. In Cleveland he got a job teaching high school history, while on the side he took his master's degree at Oberlin. His call to Western Reserve as assistant professor of political science resulted largely from his reputation for using the library. That summer he married Eve Dall (no kin to the President's son-in-law), who bore him twin sons, now aged 8. At Western Reserve he is still well remembered as the professor who required his classes to read the New Republic when that polite journal of parlor liberalism was considered...
...present plan men are permitted to play in the regular league schedule, but are not allowed to play in the game against the Yale class teams. This ruling has worked against Harvard teams in several instances; for often a team has had to be completely reorganized on the eve of a game to fill up gaps left by ineligible members...
...give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes ("Dancing Honeymoon") and New Year's Eve in New York, an ambitious work which won him a three-year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome...
Lycanthropy was a family failing among the Pitamonts. One Christmas Eve in mid-Nineteenth Century Paris Bertrand, product of Father Pitamont's rape of a servant girl, was born into the tradition. A preternaturally quiet baby, he had hair on his palms. Aside from this infallible sign, his adopted father Aymar had good reason to know all about him. He took the child and his mother into the country and brought the boy up carefully, hoping for the best. But lycanthropy will out: before Bertrand was full-grown farmers thereabouts began to complain of midnight raids on their sheep...
...three classes of banks, the solvent, the semi-solvent, and the bankrupt, it is the second class which is now threatened and which may be hard put to it by a series of runs on reopening. Such difficulties, however, I believe, will be overcome. We are now on the eve of a period of progress that will be greater than any which has occurred for a long time. The only danger is that we may go too fast, the only difficulty is to get started. The difficulty, I believe, will be avoided by such a program of recovery as that...