Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left at eleven-twenty; by that time Orson Welles' "Five Kings" had got through the whole of Henry IV Part One, and up to the crowning of Henry V in Part II; some people said that Henry V made a third act, also, but we had to get home in time to milk the cows...
...reasons: 1) dislike for school; 2) unhappy home conditions; 3) evil associates, encountered in dance halls, skating rinks, "cellar" clubs; 4) delusions of persecution; 5) illusions fostered by cheap novels, movies, fan magazines; 6) clashing of new and old world customs in families of foreign parentage; 7) misplaced confidence, usually in trifling men; 8) parental objection to marriage; 9) incorrigibility...
...Hustling home to San Francisco, old A. P. immediately took his battle to the public. Snapped this onetime backer of the New Deal: "I found bright young men, fresh from academic halls, completely uninformed of life and experience and the ways of business, dominating important councils. By using the force of propaganda they try to compensate...
Although he has just left his homeland under the quota, Prager did not wish to make any statement concerning conditions there since his family remains behind. Met at the dock by Dr. Cecilia Gaposchkin and her husband of the Astronomy Department, he was taken to their home for the day pending the making of definite plans...
...Varsity's affair started sensationally, with Columbia's Finnerty, Callahan, and Fox out-pulling Art Bosworth, Jack Waldron, and Him Curwen--Harvard's best medley relay combination. Bossie, supposed to be home with a cold, gained a body-length over Finnerty, but Captain Callahan did has breastroke 100 in around 1:04 to pile up a huge lead over Waldron, another sick-list swimmer. Curwen was faced with the prospect of overcoming a deficit of almost one lap in the free-style leg, but Coach Ulen signaled him to ease up. The time, 3:04.8, was excellent for the Columbia...