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Word: ifs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mr. Greene was entirely justified in raising the question of good taste. But a sounder course of action for him would have been to protest on this ground and to suggest that the project be abandoned, but finally to abide by his previous commitment if the John Reed sponsors still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWDER AND FREE SPEECH | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

My eye was arrested by the somewhat startling headline "Harvard Murphys Get $360 Each." It is a curious sort of scholarship, and if I were a Murphy I think I might resent it. No Murphy needs a hand-picked education, an appointed college or any other special favors whatsoever. Under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

Murphys are acute in financial matters and seldom stand in the need of any patronage. I think it might be a mistake if Harvard were to change the rules and demand that every student should be a Murphy. Or, for that matter, a Wiggles-worth or a Saltonstall. If this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

Of the seven questions on the poll, only the first two give opportunity for an unprejudiced answer. All the rest are so worded that the voter has little or no choice. Number Three bluntly states that if we refuse to reply "Yes" on curbing war profits, we will automatically be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEVEN COME ELEVEN | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

The trouble is that Mr. Todd doesn't seem to have the courage of his convictions. For instance, after whooping up the "Three Little Maids" red hot out of a ladies' seminary with a gorgeous syncopated score and a crew of jitterbugs in the best traditions of Harlem's Savoy...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

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