Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...
Past such colorful names as Skipjack, Puffin, Foxhound, Esk, Fearless, Wild Swanand Escapade the royal flotilla passed, with each ship, swathed in flags, banging out a 21-gun salute, her crew hand in hand, lining the rails...
This is exactly the problem as the "Crimson" sees it. A University teacher who ceases to add to his store of knowledge becomes stagnant and loses much of his value as an educator. On the other hand a man who is so preoccupied with his own self-instruction that he neglects his teaching responsibilities both in the class room and in tutorial conferences, is of no value to the undergraduate whatsoever. He serves only to emblazon the name of the University in scholarly publications, and to swell the volume of library books bearing the insignia of the University Press...
With all the facilities in the palm of its hand, the university has no excuse for not offering them to the aspiring biochemists it allegedly desires to train...
Yale and Dartmouth are on the other hand, through with the toughest part of their circuit, games, except for their dealings with the Crimson. Here again Harvard will have plenty of difficulties for it engages Dartmouth in a double-header, and the prospect is extremely unlikely that it can nab both ends...