Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...florid, blinking Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart of Iowa. A vociferous champion of radical farm measures, Senator Brookhart had pleaded the Hoover cause in 200 stump speeches last autumn. He had shouted to rural audiences that the Republican candidate was "progressive" on farm legislation. "Progressive" in those days meant much more than it does...
...declarations on the importance of an independent press. These declarations are important. Although no evidence exists that the newspapers concerned trimmed their news or editorial policies to suit the interests of the power company, it is plain that the relationship is embarrassing. Their own avowals of independence prove that much. However conscientiously they may have acted, the relationship is ambiguous and cannot be defended...
Apparently, military and naval pursuits have failed to stir the imagination of the class of 1932 as much as last year's group. Crew and singles, holding third and fourth places, have failed to draw their share of the increase in this year's class but have lost slightly...
Perhaps the most frequently discussed aspect of the House Plan has been the probable status of the fraternities when Yale becomes small and intimate again. The alarmists put their heads together and imagine all sorts of dire results, the intellegentsia see a better future than a past for these much-maligned institutions, the Indifferents say: "What...
...gymnasium are numerous and have already gained a good deal of recognition. In the first place it is a sloppy way of doing things and will involve the extra expense incident to the construction and subsequent wrecking, of a temporary roof. During the time of building the third story, much if not all of the gymnasium will be closed to facilitate the activities of the contractor and his employees. And obviously the University will completely lack for an indefinite period the use of the top story which has not been built. As this was planned to contain the basketball floor...