Word: hopes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astute is the word for President Conant's letter to Alf Landon. We hope that "futile" will not also be applied...
...reaction can be gained from Alf Landon's reply. It is brief, non-committal, obvious. It shows plainly Mr. Landon's embarrassment. But it contains no hint of a willingness to cooperate. One fears that, Mr. Conant notwithstanding, the debate will go on--bitterly, irrationally, without inhibitions. The only hope of thinking persons is that eventually reason will prevail on a national scale, and that the decision thus made will be reflected in Congress over the adroitly dramatized objections of an irresponsible and misguided minority...
Dunster's chief hope lies in Red Bailey, end and full-back of the all-House team last year, while the Bunnies are pinning their hopes on Harry Burgess, another of last year's all-stars...
...Fisher Home, given by one of the famed, pious seven Fisher (bodies) brothers and his wife. Archbishop Edward Mooney said of the sisters: "They teach us, and they have taught us for 100 years, that the Gospel is not Utopian; that if you build charity on faith and hope, it works...
...unable to bring his mind fully to bear on his war experience until years afterward. His first novel, Death of a Hero, was written in one grim satiric gust in 1928. Ever since then, in novel after novel, Aldington has pointed the contrast he sees between the hope of a good life and literature which animated his generation, and the fog of death and deathly stupidity that moved...