Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anxiety, said the detective: the ritual requires that the President be given the opportunity to refuse a third term; practical politics makes him refuse it. "The only man who could conceivably obtain a third term is one who convinced the country he did not want it. . . . The effort to get a third term would convince the country that the man must not have it; it would be ... using the power of his office to perpetuate himself in office. That would surely split his own party; it would certainly provide the opposition with the greatest of all issues...
...goals and four touchdowns to nothing may be partially explained by the rules difficulties. Football as it was played at Cambridge and football as it was played at New Haven were as unlike as marbles and ping-pong. For years the Yales and the Harvards couldn't get together...
...harmonious duct of such social significance is comforting today when their football rivalry is waxing warm. But there is more than one fly in the ointment. John and the Bulldog may nod solemnly together over such a book as mill's "On Liberty," but we were afraid they would get into the very devil of a fight over Emily Post's "Etiquette." It seems that as regards a man named Browder, John and the Bulldog just can't agree on what's good taste...
...Jerome Greene, obviously a gentleman of the old school, can't quite stomach the Communist leader, and so Harvard just has to get along without him. President Seymour, on the other hand, welcomes him with open arms, passport violator though he is. It is clear that this split touches the very fundamentals of what is, and is not, done. Let Emily referee the fight, and plenty of people who have nothing better to do will throng the sidelines to cheer one contestant or the other...
While he thought about that, Bill and Torby passed by together, slapped him on the arm. "We're the Old Guard, Tommy. We ought to get together after the game." And Torby laughed...