Word: might
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better plan. Objections of such sort can be diplomatically overcome. The Student Council committee has shown rare wisdom is insisting on the proper procedure. Although their rough sketch shows defects (for instance, the chapel would probably be better situated where the second housing unit is planned, and an octagon might prove more suitable for the lot on which the fourth unit is to go, since there must be ready access to the new yard) these will vanish under such attention as the committee hopes to bring to the matter. The architects may well look to their laurels when undergraduates show...
...this country into pure fetishism. States, cities, and institutions alike meet it. If the beauty of buildings that could be designed to supplant Matthew, Weld, Boylston, Emerson, etc., is not sufficiently justification of the destruction of the monstrosities, why not have the Engineering School build the future Harvard? They might do a good job. If the Yard is to be kept in its primeval state, why not tear everything out except Holden, Harvard, Massachusetts, and University, restoring the plazza to the last, of course? The little quadrangles that have been made along the edge of the Yard...
Racketeer. The essential step in the working of an industrial racket is the formation of an association which all the local operators in the industry are invited to join. Thus a dry cleaner might find himself invited to join a local dry cleaning association, paying this association an initiation fee and annual dues. Should he refuse to join, his house might be bombed, his place of business wrecked, his person assaulted, his life taken. Minor forms of pressure would be the hurling of stench bombs, or the introduction of acids or explosives into his cleaning fluids. Should the dry cleaner...
...historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have been spared. But the case of the French Catholics is not so ill-founded as at first blush might appear...
...more surely are they famous when they turn their methods of scholarly analysis to the practical problems of state. It was President Eliot who earned the title of "First Citizen of the Land" by his active interest in public affairs. Now we have not one, but many, who might qualify from their double function as university heads and valuable public servants...