Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Behind the Harvard band, the student throng marched to the field to hear speeches by Macdonald, Bill Bingham, Tack Hardwick, Dick Harlow, and manager John Atherton. All expressed the hope and the belief that Harvard would reach its turning-point as in the past two years with the Princeton game...
These awards, of 500 pounds sterling each, were established by the bequest of Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in earnest hope and desire of cementing bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
...play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show began to shake the dust off its feet. By the end of the second act everyone was talking at once. Mr. Gage was roaring up and down stairs, Joan Croydon (Julie) was standing mid-stage screaming her head off, and things looked brighter. Things continued to look bright straight through...
...Lung. Six years ago a middle-aged Pittsburgh physician with cancer of the lung made a long, painful journey to St. Louis to beg a crumb of hope from famed Surgeon Evarts Ambrose Graham.* Both doctors thought that death was inevitable, and Dr. Graham decided on a last, desperate measure, never before tried in the history of surgery: complete amputation of the cancerous lung in one stage. An incision was made down the sick man's back, beside and below his shoulder blade. Carefully Dr. Graham slit through tough chest muscles, removed sections of seven ribs, neatly severed...
...point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species." For war, once a selective elimination of "the young male surplus," has become through technology a prodigious wastage. Wells sees general enlightenment as the only hope. Against groups that he thinks impede it he lets his anger ride...