Word: kindness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the new owner of the moldering phalanstery did not know quite what to do with his acquisition. He could always wreck it for the lumber. But he had an idea that it might become a tourist attraction: it seemed like the kind of thing a vacationing capitalist might spend two bits to inspect...
Worst of all, British industry fails to produce the kind of goods that are most likely to sell in the U.S. "If we in Britain," mused one imaginative Board of Trade official last week, "were to grasp the principle of selling the Americans something they haven't got and won't bother to make under their mass-production methods, there's market enough to bridge the dollar gap, and more...
...days later the Riot Act was rescinded; at week's end, peace of a kind still reigned in Asbestos. But the strike had caused reverberations far beyond Asbestos; it had set off a crisis between church & state in Quebec...
...conditions are rough enough to force the race onto a special three-quarter mile "foul-weather course," which the regatta committee had laid out for the occasion. Harvard has had little or no experience at short distances, and Bill Curwen's normally low stroke is not suited to this kind of race...
Bolles never exhorts his crews to deeds of greater valor before a race; first, because he is not that kind of man, and second because he knows that any boy who has plugged up and down the river for who chilly months is going to give it everything he's got no matter what he tells...