Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That phrase, "provided opportunity," is the key to the whole problem. The war courses must be offered, they must be available; but not enforced. If students are going into the services, they will take them without any shoving. They will grab at the chance to choose the sort of war work they are most fitted for, and get a head start in preparing for it. It is enough to offer war courses. But it is the basic liberal arts courses that must be enforced. Perhaps that is what President Conant meant when he said: "During the war we might concentrate...
...face verbal brawl between Virginia's pinchfist Harry Byrd, hot opponent of pensions, and Wyoming's Joseph O'Mahoney, who stressed the fact that he had been "absent" when the bill passed. O'Mahoney roared that Congress was being "smeared" as a "conglomeration of grab-seeking individuals.'' Shouted Byrd: "I have never smeared the members of Congress. . . . The Senator shows ignorance...
...billion dollars to give private property owners in the U.S. and its territories free insurance (up to $15,000) against war damage. Pending in the Senate Finance Committee were two House-passed bills loosening and upping pensions for World War I veterans, widows, children and dependent parents. The grab bag was wide open and the grab...
...Zealand traded Ministers for the first time, Franklin Roosevelt looked around for a New Dealer of Cabinet rank to exchange for Deputy Prime Minister Walter ("Wai") Nash of New Zealand. To his surprise, he couldn't find one. So he dipped down into the Republican grab bag and came up with Herbert Hoover's old Secretary of War, angular but still handsome Patrick Jay Hurley...
...tonight's game with Coach Paul Mooney's Columbia five at New York, Harvard should be favored to grab its second league win in four games unless the heavy traveling in the past few days doesn't produce unfavorable results...