Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another week passed, and no square mile changed hands in Spain last week but signs were not lacking that the six-weeks' stalemate would not last much longer. On Thanksgiving eve, Madrid, quiet for over a month, received its heaviest shelling since October 16. Some 300 buildings were damaged...
Focus of all this celebration was a vigorous, severely dressed oldster, whose polished, monolithic head rose above an oversized collar. For many hours he stood patiently erect-with a curious bearing of rustic urbanity and retiring self assurance -receiving the congratulations of state officials, municipal leaders, foreign envoys and friends...
Five New England college presidents will be gathered here for the occasion. They are: Charles Seymour of Yale, Henry M. Wriston of Brown, Roswell G. Ham of Mount Holyoke, Father McGarry of Boston College, and Fred Englehardt of New Hampshire.
"We are rich today, poor tomorrow; we are popular today and the world cries for our heads tomorrow. Sooner or later to every man, like all great religious experiences. comes some provocative occasion that requires his soul. The outward standards of success are so glamorous that a man can be...
In 1926, "moral turpitude" became a national catch-phrase when U. S. immigration authorities used it as grounds for barring entrance into the U. S. of Vera, Countess Cathcart. Countess Cathcart's moral turpitude consisted of having been named as corespondent in a divorce case. Last week, "moral turpitude...