Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have voted special privileges and state support to the universities. The subordination of the educational function of a university to any other interest constitutes a betrayal of the implicit or explicit agreement contained in the acceptance of such aid. Such a betrayal is particularly regrettable today, when the fate of democratic institutions is in the balance, when the need for men trained not in factual minutiae but in the art of thought is greater than ever before...
Together with other institutions of higher learning, we are the trustees in whose hands lies the fate of the future of human knowledge. We have at Harvard unusual advantages for scholarly work: libraries, museums, laboratories, and special institutes. In some fields can provide opportunities for investigation which are unequalled in this country. It is clearly our first duty to see that our permanent staff is composed of those who can use these facilities most effectively and wisely. We must provide every opportunity for the ambitious, brilliant young scholar to come to Harvard and demonstrate his worth. In order to obtain...
Replied the Chancellor to the President: "We cherish as a special grace of fate that in you as the supreme patron of our will and actions we have a witness who can and inevitably must convince the whole world of the sincerity of our intentions...
...good job as literary editor of London's weekly Spectator when he saw a notice in the Times's "agony column" about a forthcoming expedition to central Brazil for which he volunteered and was accepted. Avowed purpose of the expedition was to ascertain the mysterious fate of Colonel Fawcett, British explorer lost in the Matto Grosso with two other men in 1925. Leader of the party was one Major "George Lewy Pingle" (Fleming does not give his right name), U. S. resident of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and reputedly an experienced explorer. Fleming's early suspicions of Pingle...
Valera. He dug up a newspaper report that O'Dufty had said in a speech in County Donegal that "Mr. De Valera and his party murdered Kevin O'Higgins and Michael Collins and de Valera is now entitled to the fate he gave Collins and O'Higgins". Since those two Irish patriots were assassinated, Mr. de Valera called General O'Duffy up for trial before a military tribunal on charges of "incitement to murder the President." ( Indignantly General O'Duffy replied: " I emphatically deny that I, by word or implication or in any other...