Word: meres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...
...military disability allowances. Congress ignored his proposal. The independent offices appropriation bill carried the maximum legal amounts for ex-soldiery. Even before he left the White House President Hoover had explained his pocket veto of that measure: "The appropriation bills passed by the Congress, when taking into account mere postponements to later deficiency bills, show that the total appropriations were approximately $161,000,000 above my recommendations. Of this increase $130,900,000 is in the independent offices bill. I am not signing this bill in order that it may be reviewed in the next session...
...From all these horrors we have saved the Fatherland! We want to state clearly that the measures taken are not a mere defense against Communism. Ours is a fight to the finish until Communism has been absolutely uprooted in Germany...
...During this process two French Cabinets-those of Edouard Herriot and Joseph Paul Boncour-re- soundingly fell (TIME, Dec. 26 & Feb. 6). Last week blustering, dynamic Premier Edouard Daiadier won vote after vote on the budget in the Chamber and Senate. His estimates reduced the expected deficit to a mere 5,566,000,000 francs...
Thanks to a willing House Master and an energetic and sociable tutorial staff Kirkland House has been well organized intellectually. If the Houses are to exist by more than mere name, it will be possible only through the tutorial system. Without a doubt the tutorial system is the backbone of everything the Houses represent. It is by means of their assistance that college will, in truth, be an educational institution and not a play ground. Kirkland House has a very able tutorial staff. While it is predominantly represented in the fields already mentioned, it has very capable men in History...