Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down from the hill rushed the pretty little child, America; -- confidently, naively--toward the bottom of the valley where the stream of Permanent Neutrality flowed along an uncertain course. Along its shore stood the chilled, dripping figures of little European boys, gazing wistfully across. The American child had never tried the stream, but he was sturdy, surely he could jump it at one bound. The poor little foreigners, he was certain, were not strong enough to try; just sissies, always cheating when they played "Cops and Robbers". Brightly he ran up to the bank, jeering at the other despondent children...
...solemn group of students stood last fortnight in the office of President Frank Porter Graham of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A freshman had told an upperclassman and the upperclassman had told them and they were there to tell President Graham that the University's honor system had been widely, shockingly violated. Small, affable President Graham heard their story of organized cheating on examinations. Then to Rufus Adolphus ("Jack") Pool, president of the student body, and to the other solemn student leaders, he gave full authority to discover and punish the offenders. In the next...
Last week Boston & New England readers got a whole new section of their own. Local news is briefly reviewed in a six-column, half-page box, dressed up with ordinary and candid photographs, flanked by two longer stories. Other features: weather, radio, finance, amusement, political doings ("Up & Down Beacon Hill"). Space remains for what has always been a vexing Monitor problem: local advertising...
...downhill race was held over the short, fairly fast Hazen Hill course, in which Bob Shaw led his team mates by taking eighth place...
...Capitol Hill or the gilded towers...