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Word: pointing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Executive, Franklin Roosevelt let it be intimated at the White House that, with business improving, higher taxes might not be needed to "balance the Budget by 1941"-a point of view which cynics thought might be revised after election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Roosevelt Week: Nov. 7, 1938 | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...showing Harvard to her for there is always plenty to gloat over and to point out pride fully in the Yard. A stranger isn't so quick to notice that some of those glorious trees are now drunkenly askew, propped up like so many old ladies. Strangers are inclined to see only the starched bosom of Widener. And she misses the ugly excavations while dreaming over the calculated simplicity of Memorial Church. Then Vag introduces her to his Yardling friends, Goo-Goo the pigeon and Grumpy the squirrel. They accept her, so she "belongs." Vag is pleased at their approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...Deacons assumed the lead in the first quarter when Earl Foster went over center on a mousetrap play and kept right on going until he hit the end zone. Jack McClure tacked on another point with a placement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans, Deacons Eke Out Slim Wins, Tie for First at House Football Finish | 11/4/1938 | See Source »

...support projects which actually embarrass the University, or because the ends to which they are devoted are as useless as iron rhinoceri. On the other hand, mobile funds are necessary if Harvard is to play its part in educational and scientific progress. Under this second category comes a final point, that unrestricted grants are needed for an integration of higher learning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLUID FUNDS | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

When Secretary Hull speaks on international politics, as he did yesterday, his remarks tend to fall into a certain set pattern--one characterized by generality and vague idealism, but withal imbued with optimism. This note of optimism is refreshing. However clearly the facts may point to continued economic nationalism, however loudly self-designated "realists" may proclaim the inevitability of war, there remains in every rational person the hope that civilization may yet be constrained from committing suicide; and it is encouraging to hear a man in public office expressing that hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE POWER OF CHOICE | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

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