Word: frail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Purpose: to hear the U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain, frail, sensitive Robert Worth Bingham, ask the Conference to face the fact that its 1933 agreements fixing wheat export quotas and laying down internal wheat acreage restrictions have proved thoroughly unworkable. Ambassador Bingham, whose most important activities in London have had to do with wheat, was expected to urge that the Conference's quota and acreage agreements be indefinitely suspended...
...Crossing Harvard Square should be one of the keenest delights of the clear-eyed Harvard man. Let trembling bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy the thrills of brushing a fleeting fender with our coat tails in this pedestrian's paradise. May all schoolgirlish reference to those terrifying automobiles in Harvard Square be dropped forever from the masculine columns of the CRIMSON. F. M. Rivinus...
...Jockey Club stewards and other race-track notables, who make a habit of stopping at Max Hirsch's Belmont Park cottage on summer mornings for breakfasts of hot bread and ham & eggs, his frail-looking, sad-eyed 22-year-old daughter is usually called "Miss Mary." She rises at 5, spends the morning at the track, goes to the races in the afternoon, to bed at 9. She owns three dogs: cocker spaniel, pointer and Dalmatian. She wants to stud)' aviation, has never ridden in the show-ring or to hounds. This summer she expects officially to train...
...noon, in a room heavy with perspiration and heat and flowers and human emotion, they and the visitors from Lincoln wedged themselves to hear the list of those who had received degrees. Among those honored was a frail young girl from Virginia. "Willa Sibert Cather," called the voice from the platform...
...frail, goateed President William Preston Few, who can thank "Buck" Duke for blowing up his tiny Trinity College into big Duke University. Snapped grateful President Few: "The glory of this university is that it is built in accordance with carefully made plans. These, in all essentials, are apt to be followed to the end. I have a profound appreciation of what Mr. Duke has striven to do for Education and Humanity, and I would do honor to his good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...