Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Teeth chattering and lips blue as a ring of a spectators goaded him on in the Union Friday night, Homer D. Peabody '41 popped his nineteenth consecutive dish of ice cream into his mouth and succeeded David "Kentucky" Mitchell '41 as college ice cream king...
Since it is set in the early nineteenth century and built around the life of Napoleon Bonapart, "Conquest," the current feature at the University, might well have been simply another historical drama. Actually, it is far more than that; it is a careful portrayal of a very human character. So masterful is the direction and acting, and so vivid is the resulting picture of Napoleon, that if for no other reason, "Conquest" is an outstanding success...
...current exhibition at the Germanic Museum consists of works by the great German impressionist, Levis Corinth. Corinth, along with Slevogt and Liebermann, led the revolt in Germany against aenemic classicism and romanticism of late nineteenth century German academic painting...
...economy can only be regulated in free markets by means of prices, continues Mr. Lippmann. And yet the collectivists of the right and left are trying a "counter-revolution" against the market. Why? Because, answers Mr. Lippmann, existing markets are ruthless regulators. This was insufficiently appreciated by the nineteenth century economists, but not by the author of "The Good Society." He realizes that the profits of business are not merely earnings due to ability and foresight; he realizes that laborers cannot travel from place to place to seek new opportunities. He recognizes the "paradoxes of poverty and plenty, democracy...
Yesterday at the eleventh hour was the nineteenth anniversary of the end of the war to end wars. From the viewpoint of diplomats and statesmen, it is difficult to celebrate that "ending" with real conviction when the world is at the moment facing at least two real wars, in Spain and in China, coupled with tense situations in the Mediterranean, in eastern Europe, and latest of all, in Brazil. The great masses of the peoples of the world are likewise disturbed, for the clouds of imperialism and aggrandizement seem at times ready to plunge them into another cataclysm...