Word: interests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside in the School Yard, friends of the victim are waiting eagerly to hear a first-hand account of what occurred . . . For a few days, he will be a hero. The slight pain which the flogging caused will be highly compensated by the interest it has created. The punishment is greatly preferred to copying out lines which take up hours which could be spent at leisure...
Today the Foundation-sponsored concerts at colleges throughout the country interest her most. She sees in them the best way of perpetuating the taste she has done so much to develop. The many programs she has presented at Harvard are typical of what the Foundation has done in every major college in the country. The resulting clamor for more testifies to her success in popularizing chamber music...
...Laugh at Me. By 1935, Huron was on its way back, and Hubert, who had shown little interest in girls, had met a brunette named Muriel Buck, the daughter of a produce and feed dealer whose business had gone to dust. Hubert took a bus trip to Washington, and wrote a letter back to his fianc...
...real question seemed to be whether hurrying Hubert Humphrey would fail to get where he wanted (wherever that was) because he had tried to get there too fast. A man who has an answer for almost everything, Hubert Humphrey also had an answer for that: "I still have an interest in the drugstore." But, he added: "It's going to take a real good man six years from now to make me move out of here...
...Street pubs like the Codgers and the Two Brewers. Exploded one news editor: "After all our outcry for more paper, what do we do with it? Throw it away on women's tripe, godawful strips and shoddy fiction!" Replied a feature editor: "Go bury your head! Variety, entertainment, interest . . . Let's shovel it in by the bucket...