Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until 1717 the Corporation consisted of all the tutors in the college. In that year the Fellows elected three settled ministers, omitted two tutors. Three years later Tutors Sever, Robie, and Flint petitioned the Board of Overseers for their election as Fellows...
...highly aristocratic Potocki family, the ambassador has constantly worked for his country's freedom and later for its government. Originally aide de camp for the late Marshal Pilsudski, he served as minister in Ankara before coming to Washington. Even now, with the Moscicki faction out of power, he has held the confidence of the new government at Paris headed by General Sikorski...
There is also some superb writing on certain sinister essences of the American South. In the later pages there is a slow withering of gaiety, of wit, of external interest, a dark and deepening absorption in the study of Buddhism, of the Bible in Hebrew, of the nature of reality, and of death, which at length is no longer feared. The journal ends in the aftermath of a gentle and casual dream: "Perhaps we shall be talking just like that when we awake from this life. Who could say that all our waking life was not a dream...
...White House spokesman." Unghostly, cherry-cheeked Secretary Steve Early got the call. Spokesmanlike, he asked the U. S. Press to consider the "timing" of Russian Premier Molotov's blast at U. S. foreign policy-on the day of a crucial House vote on the 1939 Neutrality Act. Later that day the White House released without comment past correspondence between President Roosevelt and U. S. S. R. President Kalinin, in which Mr. Kalinin thanked Mr. Roosevelt for a non-aggression proposal to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini...
...days later, after Representative John McCormack of Boston had demanded the recall from Moscow of U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt, Franklin Roosevelt remarked softly that bad manners should never beget bad manners...