Word: happening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excess profits tax as "crazy," as paving the way for "a Socialist Government to ruin the profitability of British Industry." Writing in the London Times, Economist John Maynard Keynes said: "It is like a tax on twins whose names are in the first half of the telephone book and happen to be born...
Harvard's position has been stated before. While she will make no provision to send a delegate to the celebration, she will permit a member of her faculty, who may happen to be travelling in Europe at the time, to represent her in the capacity of official delegate. This stand is both logical and sane. Germany realizes that Harvard cannot enter into cordial relations with any educational institution controlled and oppressed by a government whose treatment of its educators has become notorious throughout the civilized world. At the same time the University will not offend an institution which, despite...
...knit organization are the most prominent characteristics of Princeton intra-mural athletics when contrasted with the present House sports program at Harvard. When a Princeton man gives up a weekend in New York in order to play in an inter club hockey game, as has actually been known to happen, it shows that there is an enthusiasm present which the House system has so far been unable to arouse...
Entertaining, but by no means inspirational, the story has a twist that is as surprising as it is unlikely. Anything can happen in the movies and often does, Jack Haley, whose singing is good if you don't mind his face, is a small time vaudeville performer who has "mike fright" at his first audition. The inevitable happy ending finds him firmly established at the top in radio...
When, in the last round of an important medal tournament which he has had a good chance to win, a young golfer gets to the tenth tee and learns that he is four strokes behind the leader, two things can happen. The news can disrupt his game completely or it can make him play superlatively well. This was the alternative which, last week at Augusta, Ga., faced 25-year-old Byron Nelson, whose most noteworthy previous achievement as a golf professional was winning New York's Metropolitan Open Championship last summer...