Word: lively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...term bill of next January. This arrangement is least convenient perhaps for Freshmen, for probably only a few have as yet decided to room in the Yard their Senior Year. However, with more rooms made thus still more attractive it is logical that most of the class will live there its Senior year, since the popularity of the Yard is no longer a myth. The committee has consulted most of the officers of all three classes, all of whom are enthusiastic over the plan...
Your adjectives backward and primitive might justly be applied to the Mayo and Tarahumari Indians who live in the mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua but would you be satisfied to have American culture judged by the hillbillies of Kentucky and Tennessee or the crackers of Georgia and Florida? And I believe that even today you can find within fifty miles of Manhattan Island . . . plenty of backward and primitive people...
...politicos' wives donated table silver and trinkets (see cut). Wealthy Mexicans took almost no part, since they hate and fear Cárdenas. Poor Mexican women were snapped bringing in chickens-worth in Mexico about one peso (25?)-as their contribution, while banners were unfurled (see cut) reading: "LIVE TO BE FREE! OR DIE TO CEASE BEING SLAVES! (Signed) THE WOMEN." On the sixth day of the collection a dispatch from
Last week Granville Hicks was busy apologizing to Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. Appointed one of six fellows in U. S. history, he was not hired as an actual instructor of classes. He will write a book, live in Adams House, counsel upperclassmen, organize discussions under the house plan. He said he would willingly sign the Massachusetts teachers' pledge of loyalty to the Constitution. He will also remain a literary editor of the New Masses, soon will have published a Modern Age book called I Like America...
...observations. If a test pilot ends his career alive, he is considered lucky. Test Pilot'?, flying shots are among the best ever staged by cinema. But the picture is less concerned with the mechanics of test flying than it is with how test pilots and those about them live...