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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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If the suggestion fell on the deaf ears of already over-burdened department heads, it got a more sympathetic reception from three Californians who agreed to finance a scheme to stimulate extra-curricular reading in American History. Next week the eight History Counsellors and the Faculty committee in charge will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR CIVILIZED AMERICANS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

If the plan is to succeed in future years, it must not continue to be predicated on an impossibly romantic basis. Harvard students an masse will not voluntarily swallow an American History pill, no matter how heavily coated with sugar. Nor is a compulsory course a solution, striking as it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR CIVILIZED AMERICANS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

Chamberlain, answering Moscow's objections before the House of Commons, admitted that the Soviets were suspicious of being drawn into an anti-aggression alignment in which they would be left "holding the bag" if Fuchrer Adolf Hitler's armies should strike castward to obtain more territory for the expanding German...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

If we Elis were to answer the same question about Hahvud, there would be no difficulty. We would picture the typical Cantab as infected with the bored indifference synonymous with the name of his university, afflicted with the "yahd" accent, his shoulders stooped under the weight of centuries of tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

But what about Yale? Well, if Harvard begets the indifferent before his time, and if Princeton spawns Joe College, infantile beyond his time, then Yale, as she has often been called, must be the "Mother of Men." Yale News.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 5/11/1939 | See Source »

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