Word: likings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like a good prizefighter manager, Dick Harlow has always been a firm believer in brining new men along slowly. To throw an inexperienced cub without proper seasoning into the ring or football stadium may often result in disaster for both player and team...
...with Lee, comes the other starting Sophomore back, Charley Spreyer. Unlike Lee in temperament, Spreyer seems easy-going on the field; but somehow he's always there. He's the Larry Kelley type of "clutch" player, without Kelley's objectionable trimmings. At fullback he won't spin and run like Vern Struck, but he'll kick like George Roberts...
...moments of the Dual Monarchy makes for vivid reading, one wishes that Miss Harding had elaborated on the wider significance of events which led directly to profound changes in the European map. In an almost offhand manner, the author brings up the question of the rights of national minorities, like the Croats and Ruthenians. With only superficial analysis, she baldly asserts that the principle of national self-determination cannot be realized in Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed to govern themselves, constitute an ever-present...
...reporting, and the intricacies of editing a daily paper are among the activities occupying the day of the neophyte trying out in the news field. As the competition progresses, specialization of coverage is generally the rule, and goings on in labor, Cambridge politics, the Dean's office, and the like, are the daily concern of the candidates, each of whom becomes expert in his own field...
...like Germany, Russia fears most the necessary of a fight on two fronts. So long as a large part of the Red Army is stationed in the newly acquired territory in Poland, it is unlikely that Russia will bring effective pressure on Japan to round out Soviet Far Eastern positions by taking Mauchukuo...