Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the three undergraduate dailies, the CRIMSON, the Yale News and the Princetonian have gathered a stellar group of men prominent in public life, the discussions will be treated "off the record" in the news columns so that student and faculty participants may benefit thereby...
Following the Student Council report of 1937, the official University publications; such as the Harvard Athletic News, were forbidden to accept tutoring advertisements. According to the Council report, advertising has in a large measure contributed to the flourishing of the schools and has an obvious connection with respectability, especially in the eyes of incoming Freshmen...
Contrary to the general impression that Billy Phelps likes everything and everybody (barring some modern novelists), he protests that he has at least a dozen prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list...
...ready," was all he said. And it was enough; he might well have added that his throwing wing was "loose as gooseberries" or any other more dramatic announcement. But the newsmen could add all that. They had heard enough--the highest authority in the land had commented on the news the land was waiting for. His arm was ready to loss in the first ball of today's game in Griffith Stadium, opening the 1939 major league baseball season...
Reflecting technical factors, President Roosevelt's peace proposal and somewhat better business news, stock prices rallied to gains ranging to 11 points. The recovery reached its peak Saturday with one of the broadest advances in six months...