Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effects while Mrs. Ayer lay prostrate on a couch. An informer whom they would call only "Mary Doe" had told the Federal men where they would find Paris finery worth some $26,000 which Mrs. Ayer had allegedly brought into the U. S. over the past four years with gross evasion of duties...
...most people this seems to be merely a gross grab for power-terrific cost to Miner Lewis' own followers as well as to the whole U. S. The unreconstructed New York Sun for once thundered for what appeared to be a majority: "THE CALLOUS SELFISHNESS OF JOHN L. LEWIS. When a union calls a nationwide strike . . . that is bound to affect millions " . . that union must be prepared to submit a strong case to the public. . . . What sort of case has John L. Lewis? ... He is willing to see 400,000 miners quit work and millions of the public deprived...
Unethical because it is cynically used to get out of work. It is a lazy man's short-cut to a diploma, a method of cheating for a Harvard degree. Unethical, too, because of the gross commercialization which has taken tutoring far beyond its legitimate limits, which has created a false and unhealthy demand where one should not exist...
...sincere co-operation of the Class of 1942. to those of you who have either criticism or praise for the courses you have been taking, we ask responsible replies to the easily-answered queries on the blanks. Only in this way can the innumerable petty and some times gross misfires in the Freshman curriculum be called to the attention of next year's class. Only by your studied answers can we offer to the Class of '43 a heritage of counsel which cannot help but result in more mature use of Harvard's varies and vacillating electives...
Vocalist record-of-the-month: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Vocalion), sung with great skill and taste by Nan Wynn, rising Negro chanteuse, and excellently accompanied by Walter Gross's band...