Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doors tight shut against another war, he suggested cash & carry as an alternative. Contemptuously, brilliant "Bernie" Baruch calls his cash & carry principle "scuttle & run." He wants peace, but his real idea of how to keep it is to have the U. S. so well-prepared to fight that no nation will dare to antagonize it. No man knows better than the onetime chairman of the War Industries Board that the biggest guns in modern war are not military but economic. He struggled heroically to hurl the U. S.'s vast economic power into the War but, forced to improvise...
...regarded us nothing short of unfortunate that the official Harvard snub to the University of Goettingen should have come during the twenty-four hours when the whole civilized world German nation. No matter what one's political ideology may be, the Hindenburg has shown that many of the things which we regard as important and vital in life can flame up and turn to dust and ashes in a moment before a touch of the hand of the Unknown...
...Cornell eight that is of unknown quality but believed to be strong will tackle the Midshipmen, who boast one of the outstanding sprint crews crews in the nation. Harvard faces Cornell a week from today and Navy on the 29th...
...fortieth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs of America, scheduled to take place in Indianapolis on May 15th, is an event of no small importance to either the University or to the varied thousands of graduates scattered in every corner of the nation. In recent years the practice of a twenty-fifth reunion has done splendid work in bringing back to the confines of Harvard, men in all walks of life, in all callings and in every profession. Holders of vastly different political creeds and men firm in varied social and moral beliefs have met and renewed acquaintances...
...nation's history, according to Ortega, consists of a period of amalgamation and a period of disintegration. Spain has been disintegrating since 1580, when Philip II conquered Portugal. If the process of history could be telescoped like the cinema of a growing plant, "the history of Spain takes on the clear expressiveness of a gesture, and the modern incidents with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today...