Word: finding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...
This whole problem raises a grave dilemma, as my letter doubtless indicates; I cannot find any simple answer. I should like to see Marxist doctrine vigorously and clearly expounded in our universities; we must understand the strength of Communism, and the power of its appeal to many people, if we are to act wisely in the world today. But a frank clear exposition of Marxist doctrine is the last thing to be expected from men trained to work by undercover methods. The usual formulas by which one attempts to guarantee freedom of speech and teaching are all, I fear, inadequate...
...been a long time since a Harvard baseball team generated as much excitement as was brought to the surface yesterday afternoon in the ninth inning at Soldiers Field. It must have been some what of a shock to the regular followers of Crimson diamond operations to find themselves surrounded by 8000 other people who didn't seem to be watching the game until the last minutes. But then it happens every year...
...rest of the Crimson starting nine will find Captain Walt Coulson at first base, Mort Dunn at shortstop, and three year veteran Ernie Mannine at third base...
Every day our mail brings at least one new invitation (inside two envelopes) and we inevitably find it a dismal experience to open it and discover who went this time. Not only does it mean something else that must be answered, not only does it involve further financial sacrifice, not only does it mean the loss of a drinking companion--from a purely objective point of view means that some unsuspecting sentimentalist is voluntarily signing away his freedom...