Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editors feel that there is some value to be obtained from enlistment in a National Guard Unit, it seems to me that the tone of the article is rather poor. If, on the other hand, the story was used as a filler, I shall merely apologize to Colonel Hall of the First Corps Cadets for wasting his time...
...would be a sorry student who joined with the idea that he, as a "Harvard man," had few if any obstacles in his way. I seriously doubt that he could last for three drills. On the other hand, a man with the ability to be at Harvard has that ability in his favor when coming up before the examination board...
...dinner the speakers were Zechaviah Chafee, Jr., Laugdell Professor of Law: George H. Chase '96, John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology and Dean of the University: Charles N. Fay '69; and Harlow Shapley. Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory. Learned Hand '93. Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, served as teastmaster...
...years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock-headed Swedish kid in Galesburg, Ill. in the '80s (his father was an immigrant blacksmith) listening to talk of Lincoln and the Civil War; as a harvest hand, a migrant worker, a volunteer in the Spanish-American War; as a young reporter in Milwaukee and Chicago getting ten years of schooling in the hard facts of politics, business, labor; as a poet, a big Swede trying to shape American lingo to fit his anger against bunk artists...
...when the officer stationed at the committee room door came in with a half-frightened expression on his face. Before he had opportunity to make explanation, we understood . . . and were ourselves almost overwhelmed with astonishment. For at the foot of the Committee table, standing solitary, his hat in his hand, his form towering, Abraham Lincoln stood." What the Committee member got was "above all an indescribable sense of his [Lincoln's] complete isolation...