Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with extra-curricular activities honey-combing the university life of today, there is still a relation between students and books, and Widener Library should be that connection at Harvard. This relationship may no longer be a true Damon-Pythias one, but the 1937 student is well aware that an acute knowledge of what other people have written is not enough to guarantee his own success in post-college life. Instead, it has become clear that books should guide and stimulate individual and original thought. The contact between the student and his book has, as a consequence, shifted its basis...
Davis' platform has been concerned with economy in the voters' money. Combatting the disadvantages of his youth, he has declared that an early start will ensure a longer career of men with experience and consequently his election will be valuable to the community not only now but later...
Today, America, cursed with "depression nerves" and insidious class prejudices, is mourning the loss of a man whose level-headedness and altruistic ideals would have helped us overcome our troubles, had he lived longer to carry on the work that he began so well...
...defended passes make actual trenches unnecessary, but the strong points here are well built, well defended, so much so that neutral observers agree that Generalissimo Franco's old scheme, to drive a wedge from Teruel to the sea thus breaking Valencia's communications with Madrid, is no longer practicable. Conversely, Teruel itself is immune to direct Leftist attack. West of Teruel to the Guadarrama Mountains is one of the two sectors in the entire line where no formal fortifications exist. In this barren rocky country such fighting as takes place consists of open guerrilla raids. Many scrubby villages...
...says no to his heart, makes a practical match with a rich girl, amasses a fortune. His wife betrays him, associates force him into dishonest stock manipulations, he longs for the sweet girl Martha, drowns his sorrows in drink. When he cannot stand this second choice life any longer, he remembers his time-machine hidden in the attic. Zipped back into his former life, he returns gladly to his poverty, finds happiness with Martha...