Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Budget. "We deliberately used an unbalanced Federal budget during the past four years to meet a great emergency. That policy has succeeded. The emergency that we faced in 1933 no longer exists. I am fully aware that many of our problems remain unsolved. ... I am further aware that some persons contend that another great spending program is desirable to ward off the risk of another great business depression. . . . But ... I have reached the firm conviction that the domestic problems which face us today are essentially different from those which faced us four years ago. Many measures are required for their...
...Yale game tickets went on public sale. The Harvard-Yale game ceased to be a family affair. A person could no longer be sure that the person who was sitting next to him could safely be talked with. It might be that he would be a member of the lower classes. And that ended the gilded period...
...student is forced to go exactly 67 inches out of his way, and his circuitous routs takes him three seconds longer. Going to three meals a day for 240 days, thus making a total of 4,320 trips around the plot in a college year he must walk four miles, 3000 feet...
...eighteen foot trip from the Widener's doors to the nearest turn-stile, which unfortunately, is an "exit" one. Twenty-one feet three inches, however, constitutes the journey to the proper turnstile, and is addition to the longer trip, the student entering must dodge a marble pillar on each side...
...particularly plentiful and annoying this season. The species is rare in these parts, there being no record of their growth here since the Yale game of 1931, except in a few isolated instances. They are individually known as barnacles-on-society, and commonly referred to as "scalpers," but somewhat longer terms have sometimes been applied to them by rougher company. They are no relation to the Indians who roamed the plains of yore, although their methods have some points of similarity. However, these do not wahoo; they whisper...