Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hence, the New Deal can live. Its liberal philosophies can live if the President will abandon his harsh tactics in pressing through unpopular measures at express-train speed, if he will modify his tude. In this way he can prevent the formation of an anti-administration coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition, and can possibly create his own coalition of liberal Democrats and Republicans. Succeeding here, he would be able to push through the principal legislation on his agenda--broad extension of old-age security--while at the same time consolidating his constructive measures of the past...
...said, there is no reason why this should continue if both sides make efforts to understand each other, and he suggested placing students in local homes to live as a means to this, praising Hitler for making students in Germany live with poor families...
...very happy now. He would like to live there among the model trains. Of course, someday, when he graduates, Vag would like to be an engineer. Not the clever kind they turn out by the thousands at Tech, but one of the real heman kind of engineers on locomotives of trains throughout the world, who know daily the indescribable thrill of easing the throttle open, gradually nursing the Johnson bar into the center notch, and letting the mighty monster rock over the high iron. Until that lucky day, Vag is going to try to get work as an extra yardman...
Dean Matthews had high praise for the religious organization here. "The morning service in Memorial Chapel are very beautiful," he declared. "They contain a unique spirit of devotion. I have also been impressed with the services at Yale, and with the live interest in religion which I found at Princeton; but here there is a sincerity, a consecration of purpose,--an atmosphere which I can only describe as the manifestation of a true spirit of worship. Doubtless it is partly due to the beautiful building in which the services are held...
Perhaps it all started when the Vagabond read a candidate's campaign promise that he "would live up to the ideals of 'Veritas'." And all at once the Vagabond felt a blind fury sweep over him as he realized that it had come to this, that the ideal for which men had crossed the ocean, faced hunger, pestilence, and every sort of privation and danger, had now become a cheap symbol to be handed about at election rallies...