Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nigger." "He was not a moral idiot of genius like Huey Long; he was merely an exhibitionist playing with fire." When Percy Sr. won, they tried to pin a bribery charge on him. It was quickly disproved, but the man who made the charge went on shouting the lie from every platform in Mississippi. He "was a pert little monster, glib and shameless. . . . The people loved him ... not because they were deceived in him, but because they understood him thoroughly; they said of him proudly: 'He's a slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy...
...high time we got one who will really earn his four pounds. There is no limit to the bad effects of a precedent like this, and it mustn't be allowed to go on too long. If something happened to the Memorial Hall clock, would we just let it lie? If the rope on the church-bell broke, would we give up in despair? A University is not made of quitters. The repaired clock would give the Yard a new lease on life, and show the Square that Harvard is still wound...
Between Ecuador and Peru a 110-year-old frontier dispute is heating up again, with anti-U. S. elements in Peru claiming that the U. S. has promised its support to Ecuador in return for bases on the Galapagos Islands. (A lie, says Washington. ) In Bolivia pro-U. S. President General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo faces trouble from a Leftist front...
Harvard admissions authorities feel that the findings of the experiment are not conclusive. They say that entrance exams provide an objective check on the student by someone who has not been teaching him, and they intend to continue their use. Any solution to the problem must lie somewhere between the two extremes of absolute freedom for the school, and rigid examination requirements by the college. The College Entrance Board seems at present to be tending toward a mean itself, fortunately, with Harvard's cooperation. Its examinations are more and more becoming the broad survey type, offering questions for students with...
...glad he wasn't in chapel Sunday night, terribly glad he didn't hear Jesus described as a "tough-minded man" of fibre, strength, and force, and that we believed a lie when we believed wars never solve anything. "It is a misconception common to most Christians that they must have nothing to do with war," that's what he said. And "History is made by men, not by economic forces...