Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution was passed with the words "as soon as warranted" still in it. Next day, Mr. Mitchell continued to storm and shout until they changed the phrase to "as soon as possible." So sharply did Mr. Mitchell attack those in charge of U. S. national defense that, after the resolution was passed in its unmitchellian form, his remarks had to be removed from the record...
Herr Strauss jumped from his seat, hurdled on to the stage. "He was leaning forward," wrote Olin Downes, "exhorting the orchestra, molding every phrase and gradation, spurring and reining that band at will, leading it up to climaxes of shattering intensity. . . . At the end every one lost his head except a newspaper photographer. De Grignon rushed frantically from the wings. He and Strauss fondled, kissed and babbled over each other. The photographer caught them on the fly and forced them to freeze in that attitude for a moment . . . the two men were genuinely angered...
...which Purdue is located. Probably that is true, but just the same 300 modern Americans will be in the stands stratuing every chord in their vocal organs and they will root with might and main for "dear old Purdue." We had never thought of it before but that little phrase "dear old Purdue" is almost as catching as one sometimes connected with Harvard, and we are glad newspaper...
...possible that the hue and cry of the last two years which has placed football in the position of the evil genius of American colleges will make way for a finer appreciation of the game itself. Perhaps now sport for its own sake will be more than a phrase. If such is the case, if the game resumes its proper status--a national pastime and nothing more than a pastime--the battle will not have been in vain...
...tyranny of so-called efficiency" is "The Harvard Crimson's" phrase for the red tape of the university's employment bureau, which seems to have an attack of questionnaires. One would think that some simple entries about the student looking for a job would be enough for the bureau, seeing that the applicant's character, circumstances and attainments have been investigated to exhaustion before his admission to the university. But the bureau files must be fed with questionnaires more and more and more inquisitive, according to "The Crimson," under threats of blacklisting the applicants; the latter must...