Word: happening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come and collect their bills. It seems that both Germany and Russia will be shut off from commerce with any other outside nations except such others as may also go into bankruptcy as Austria and China. The result will be to force them back into agrarian pursuits. It may happen, however, that so large a part of the world will go into bankruptcy that they will demonetize gold and leave us holding the world's supply of a practically valueless commodity. They will trade with each other and we will be barred out because we refuse to recognize their paper...
...athlete for whom outside support is provided, the Dean's report adds a shrewd reminder of a point that is often overlooked in the discussion. Many a student who needs financial aid and whose scholastic standing and personal character would fully entitle him to it, may also happen to be a superior athlete. Just because of this fact, and the fear of unjust suspicion, the University is embarrassed in giving him the aid which he was earned, and which he would quickly receive if he were not so unfortunate as to be a good football player or "crack" track...
...What!" will be exclaimed, "this is not the joke of columnists? Why, you have double-crossed us--the sun has indeed run amuck! Let us have a new election." But what will happen after that, no one, not even the man who sees good in everything, would dare conjecture...
Members of other Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa who happen to be in Cambridge have been invited to attend...
...communists of the Internationale do not yet see, or else do not admit that they see, what a wide gulf yawns between them and their creation, the Soviet Republic. What will happen when they fully realize that their ideal nation has abandoned their policies? Will they, too, see the impracticability of communism, or will they try to bring Russia back once more to famine and wretchedness? They had better make the attempt soon, for Russia is gradually pulling her giant strength out of the mire and is getting too strong a footing to be easily pushed back again...