Word: flagging
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Please ask the members of the Interstate Commerce Commission how they feel at being pictured (TIME, Nov. 1, p. 63) as not knowing that The Flag of the United States should never be at the left ("sinister") end of a line, but always at the right ("dexter"), or "military right of line...
...only one end of the rostrum is shown in the picture, it might be there was The Flag at both ends of the line of seated Commissioners, in which instance it would be equally reprehensible, for to have The Flag, at both ends reduces the display to mere decoration -which The Flag never...
...Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain one day last week had Italian Ambassador Count Dino Grandi in for a cozy, significant lunch. Afterward, Whitehall buzzed with rumors that His Majesty's Government were about to permit Generalissimo Francisco Franco to open throughout the United Kingdom consulates flying the crimson & gold flag of Rightist Spain. Same day Soviet Russia hastily abandoned the obstructionist tactics by which she has kept the London Committee for Spanish Non-intervention from taking steps to carry out the famed British "Scheme...
...research should be the most important elements in the making of teachers shows to what degree the spirit of research has permeated University minds and out-balanced that of teaching. The weakness of the School in this respect appears one particular proof that the University is flying the wrong flag of educational emphasis...
Regarding leadership of these boys, why invoke the "authorities"? The disastrous results are immediate. Footballs are stolen, cars are looted, Dunster House suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students...