Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old and proverbially lucky Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi. To compare him with Secretary of the U. S. Treasury Andrew William Mellon at the zenith of that statesman's fame as "The Greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" would not be far off the mark. As Mr. Takahashi's son, who works in Manhattan, said last week, "Father was always trying to balance the Japanese budget even when we were still little children." Tall and vigorous, emphatically the Great Takahashi, this elder statesman leaped up from his wooden pillow as the mustards broke into his bedroom...
...results of the competition for 1939 hockey manager were announced last night. The following have been elected: John W. Brooks, of Milton and Groton School as Manager; Oliver Iselin, Jr., of New York City and St. Mark's School as first Assistant Manager; and George Murnane, of New York City and St. Paul's School as second Assistant Manager...
...undergraduate committee has withdrawn every possible question mark from the minds of students. Harvard's birthday celebration will be in the best tradition of birthday celebrations with the happy exception that both fun and sentiment are to be magnified a thousandfold. Tears will be shed and Bacchus will sneak from his vineclad retreat to mingle quietly and not so quietly with revellers disposed to entertain him. And justly so. Such an affair merits the profoundest dignity, the tenderest sentiment, along with the most care free jubilation that those concerned can muster...
...note of hope that creeps into the end in the form of a dream conversation is mildly contemptuous. It is the writing of a man who has seen life, men, women, and the world they live in with keen perception and deep feeling. One would probably miss the mark by very little in calling Flamethrowers an autobiography. Friesen sees the world differently. The winds speak to the characters, a trick that is far less obtrusive in Friesen than in Joyce; Peter's dreams are portrayed with such reality that they can scarcely be distinguished from his waking existence; thought conversations...
...fell an easy prey to the decoy who chattered of the wonderful rewards to be earned by working on a white man's plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost his pay gambling. An attempted escape did him no good...