Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers should be forceful and not mince words, for after all the fate of the year and of President Conant's administration will be settled Saturday afternoon on the Stadium turf. Harvard has but recently lost a President, because his teams could not beat Yale...
...Asked if the President had approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days when Fate was pushing our country to the threshold of World War participation...
...similar fate caught Coach Charlie Whiteside unawares the other day at the Newell Boat House. We were not witness to the scene, but someone seems to have walked off with Mr. Whiteside's great leather coat, while the latter was getting dressed. The coach, accustomed to cold Charles River breezes, knew that only speed would stop the thief. That is why fortunate motorists had the pleasure of seeing Harvard's crew coach running on the road in front of the boat house...
Claudette Colbert is given an opportunity to display all her wares as an actress in this week's bill at the University. Appearing at the start as the saddened, wronged woman, her pitiful fate is written on her features with seemingly unreasonable lines. But, with the aid of movie magic, her characteristic expressions are soon reversed, she becomes the gorgeous young torch singer in a highbrow New York night club; she is a lithe figure, but experienced in handling men. She has learned...
President Roosevelt's refusal on Saturday to establish Federal regulation of farm prices is another attempt of the administration to dodge the fate which is written for it. When expediency asserts itself in the use of the "handy" weapons recommended by Mr. Milo Reno, organizer of the National Farmers Holiday Association, the Federal government will find itself taking care of the farmers simply because the farmers have to be taken care of and because no one else can take care of them...