Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoped that undergraduates will reconsider their pledges in the light of the advantages derived from the Council: their hand in the running of Harvard, their opportunity to do good collectively...
Frequent and widespread has been the expression of contempt for the blundering and faltering progress of the democracies in the present crisis. In history's most gigantic poker game, Hitler plays a winning hand because he has the confidence of a nation behind him, while Chamberlain and Daladier feel the depressing and distracting pull of public opinion. With French Communists threatening to strike rather than submit to national defense measures and British opposition flaring against the Cabinet's City policies, the Reich stands firm and united. Seemingly Fascism has once more demonstrated its ability to outmaneuver democracy because...
...began to fight about the definition of a small business man. A resolution to exclude all bankers from the definition was opposed on the ground that "they will have our business pretty soon anyway." Before long, however, the 150 delegates settled down to the sober, if small, business at hand. They listened to anti-New Deal speeches by Vice President Matthew Woll of the A. F. of L., Senator H. Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, Representative Samuel B. Pettengill of Indiana. By week's end they had drawn up a series of resolutions which opposed virtually everything except...
Unaware of impending triumph in the long grind to be first to hand in his study card, Dennis was hurried by his adviser early Saturday morning, and arrived in what could hardly be described as a photo finish. Staff members in University C reported that he was "pleasantly surprised...
...fueling a destroyer at sea, search-light demonstrations and the running of a man-of-war in its entirely including engineering, navigation and communications. They were able to put into practice many of the things learned in the classrooms here and in addition were able to get a first hand picture of life aboard...