Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Setting up of a "Dean's Fund" to provide for annual inter-departmental fluctuations, and of a "President's Fund" to provide for long term fluctuations; and the establishment of a "standing advisory Committee on the Budget...
...first time in five long years of much discussion and little action, Harvard has taken definite steps to ameliorate its Housing problem. Yesterday University Hall gave out the gladsome tidings that the Associate Member Plan has been adopted and that preference in the admission of upperclassmen to the Houses has been assured. Such a move as this must be gratifying not only to the Freshman class but to the whole college as well; for the cleavages between House men and out-of-Housers which have become increasingly sharp recently will now tend to disappear...
...hardly possible to dwell long on Kirkland without mentioning their distinguished record in the Straus Trophy competition, in which it has had by far the most consistenly high average...
...long centuries of European civilization, many have been the intellectual giants in whose ears the plaudits of world acclaim never rang. It remained for a wiser posterity to relegate them to niches in an immortal hall of fame. For such a career, fate never destined the name of Albert Einstein, a man whom kings and princes have feted, whom eminent scientists have hailed as a second Newton, and to whom peace-loving multitudes in every land have turned as a fortress of tranquil serenity in a world delirious with the war fever of nationalism...
...world of science and of current political happenings on Einstein his biographer skilfully handles, intermingling interesting data and anecdotes with the main thread of his narrative. However, in the case of the great man's exile from his homeland, Mr. Garbedian goes too far in his digressions. His rather long description of Hitler's rise to power makes the book lose in effectiveness in assuming the aspect of a general history...