Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again from the standpoint of a neutral outsider, it would seem to me that a lot more could be done by supporting the system at your institution, right or wrong, rather than by trying to undermine whatever college spirit may still exist by criticising a man and a policy about which obviously the writer knows very little. If every man in the Harvard student body will get behind the administration, Bill Bingham, the coach, and the team, and will stay behind them. Harvard will not only have a winning team, but will justify the hope of every true sportsman that...
...Course college students are good dancers and get a lot of fun out of it But it's really a national sport. Comedown to Roseland Gardens in New York sometime and watch the tailor and the sailor tango. As a matter of fact, this district around have is one of the very best for dancing: people really mix here, you know...
...seemed more preposterous to the Sun King than any question of whether the Saar is German or French. Having said "L'etat c'est moi," His Majesty would certainly have troubled no more about Saar nationality than to say "The Saar is mine!" Last week a lumpy lot of Teuton farmers and workmen from various parts of the U. S. enjoyed free passage on German ships as they were rushed Saarward to vote in the plebiscite...
...lot of the negro, then, probably involves either migration or subserviency. Nevertheless, the conquering whites need not degenerate into brutes; common justice at least should be granted to the weaker. The existing fiction of equality before the law must become a fact, if the negro and white are to live peaceably together in the semblance of a civilized community...
...fine, not so blithe, not so bed-of-rosy will be the lot of the 34 "Honorables" who will be inaugurated Governors of 34 sovereign states in January 1935. Ten years ago they could have looked forward to the peaceful enjoyment of a reasonably good salary for the next two to four years while they devoted themselves to promoting good roads and state parks, to improving state universities and agricultural experiment stations, to making after-dinner speeches, conferring political favors, capitalizing on their political power to get into that Hall of Fame to which all good Governors aspire...