Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Insurgent as Zeus's own thunder, up at once arose Senator Borah, freebooting generalissimo, to challenge the Voice to continue. Though this was a war he talked of a plowshare, to which the Voice, he said, had put its hand and whence it could not now turn away. ''I ask from the floor of the Senate that the President advise this body . . . whether he approves of the industrial schedules in this bill...
While distributing the Socialist circular "Welcome to MacDonald" in Harvard Square early yesterday afternoon, Lawrence B. Cohen, Jr., a Sophomore, President of the Socialist Club, was arrested for violating a city ordinance, brought to the Brattle Square police station, divested of his batch of hand-hills, and finally set at liberty, after being promised a summons to the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for next Thursday...
...infringed is included in Chapter 47 of the General ordinances. It says, in part: "Nor shall any person distribute in a public street. . . hand-bills. . . circulars, or papers of any kind, except newspapers. Whoever violates. . .this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for each offence." Captain Brennan pointed out that Cohen gave out about five hundred circulars, and, construing each as an offence, he should have been fined...
...division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds it. --Yale Daily News...
...often wonder," he told a CRIMSON reporter last night, "why Harvard University doesn't take more of a hand in the matter, why it doesn't try to prevent that gang of low politicians from making this city the laughing stock of America: but," he added, after a contemplative pause, "I guess Harvard's got troubles enough of its own with its football team...