Word: exits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving forward simultaneously on scattered fronts, the University has pushed through one of the most extensive renovation and alteration projects over attempted over the summer. The program included reconstruction of Harvard Hall to provide a new stairway and exit from all classrooms, as well as extensive changes in Sever Hall, it was learned yesterday from Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University...
Like The New Yorker's talented one-time lead-off man, E. B. White (TIME, Aug. 16), James Thurber is no longer a member of the staff, is wandering quietly through Europe. Master of the familiar, walk-do-not-run-to-the-exit style, Funnyman Thurber writes with a sad, lucid patience perfectly matched by his underdone drawings. For bringing earnest balloons to earth or dissolving reason in a clap of blankness, James Thurber has few contemporary equals. Nervous himself, he evidently has lost patience with the recent deluge of small volumes popularizing psychiatry. The series...
...blows to the Administration which are always best delivered in the crush that takes place when any Congress closes. Sessions of Congress are political tragedies or comedies not according to their first two acts, but according to what happens in their last act, often in their last scene. The exit is the thing, and Alben Barkley, who has set no records for accomplishment in his first month as Leader, still has success within his grasp if he can wind up Congress and march it off the stage without further damage to the prestige of Party and President...
...very different exit had been made by White House newshawks after one of the President's regular press conferences a week before. Then they were in anything but good humor and straggled through the lobby of the Executive Offices muttering audibly to one another the name of one Richard Waldo. What the President had said to them was "in committee of the whole" (off the record) but by last week the record was publicly apparent...
...forcing upon Franco consideration of the question whether insurgent strategy in whole or in part must be revised. Il Duce's legionnaires were chewed up worse than is gen erally known. Their defeat resulted in the failure of the Easter Offensive which aimed at closing the bottleneck exit from Madrid...