Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events of Saturday should allay any doubts as to the interest of the students in the university's most popular sport. Any speculation as to whether the playing of the team was improved by the cooperation of the undergraduates or the unlooked for burst of joy was evoked by the superior performance on the field is to revive the argument of the chicken and the egg. Saturday's game has shown that there was nothing chronic in the team's previous ill luck, and that football played as a clean sport has lost none of its interest or effectiveness...
...School of Regional Planning will resume operations next year", is heartening news to all of us, and will be also to everyone who is interested in orderly physical development of city, state and region. Only one thing could have exceeded our regret over discontinuance of the School--our joy and enthusiasm over its re-creation. A definite promise by the man directly responsible to President Conant has now assured the continuance of one of Harvard's most potent means of contributing to the national welfare. Dradreaux Bender David S. Geer Roland B. Greeley Oscar Sutermeister Leslie Williams
Wilhelm Kohlhass, in his novel The Officer and the Republic, thrills Nazis with this mystic description of how an ideal young German officer speaks: "His voice had the right tremolo for midnight excitement, the fortunes of Pride and defiance of Death: the jubilant joy of Death with the Weapon in one's hand...
This was enough to make U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other Free Traders generally shed tears of joy. It may mark the end of the post-War craze for excessive Nationalism and usher in a hopeful period of world economic appeasement, freer trade and resultant Prosperity...
...Broom's joy the Sterkfontein skull was that of an adult, with fairly heavy brow ridges and a brain capacity of about 600 cc. He found some resemblances to the Taungs skull and some differences, therefore put his fossil in the same genus with Australopithecus but in a different species. Name: Australopithecus transvaalensis Broom. One molar which he was able to examine closely showed close affinities to Dryopithecus, a well-known genus of extinct apes. It is from a generalized type of Dryopithecus that most anthropologists believe man evolved...