Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attending a Yale commencement for the first time in many years, I was pleased by a new note. In the old days, the president used to say as he gave out each degree: "I admit you to all its rights and privileges." At this commencement, President Seymour in awarding degrees said solemnly: "I remind you of its duties and admit you to its rights...
Dally Double. The President had another item of note for Democrats: he and Mrs. Truman were going home to Independence to vote in the primary.* Democrat Truman had no other firm political plans. But, if it was necessary to help the Party, he would also take the stump in the campaign this fall...
Meanwhile, Bill glowered and complained that he had always taken the rap for the diabolical George. First it was petty theft. Next it was assault, then murder. Bill swore he had bawled George out and written him notes begging him to straighten up, get out of town, get lost in the river. But George was utterly willful, and he was a little cracked too. Witness the note he scribbled in lipstick on Miss Brown's bathroom wall: "For heaven's sake, catch me before I kill more." He wrote that in Bill's hand, like an expert...
...Sneak. On the night of Jan. 6, with the murders of Miss Brown and Mrs. Ross behind him, George came swaggering into Bill's room and made him help plan the murder of little Suzanne Degnan. Then he made Bill give him the paper on which the ransom note was written. Bill sweated with anxiety all night, and the next morning there it was in the papers...
Taking the place of Wendell Furry, professor of Physics, the scheduled speaker for the meeting, Livingstone concluded his remarks on a note of hope, by saying that a through understanding of atomic power may prevent us from entering an atomic arms race and further wars...