Word: profess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stage the feature spot is accorded Miss Ruth Sato, a Japanese dancer. We don't profess to know whose fault it is but Miss Sato insisted on tap dancing and according to our limited notions this is not the sort of thing that Japanese should do--especially when dressed like a pagoda. There is some good comedy and some clever eccentric dancing...
Procrastination is all that can be expected from the Phillips Brooks House committee supposed to report on better lunch accomodations for commuters. Both commuters and Phillips Brooks men profess to be impatient with present overcrowding, and yet Tammany aldermen could be no slower to reduce their salaries than this committee to end their indecision...
...institutions engaged in the training of ministers. There are four or five Divinity Schools in the United States, non-sectarian in character, which are, as Harvard Divinity School is, integral parts of large universities. There are perhaps twenty or twenty-five more theological schools on independent foundations which profess to maintain academic standards of university level. Below these is a successions of seminaries of lower standards which resolve themselves. Finally into little more than schools of vocational guidance for students of hardly more than high-school grade...
...Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary of State. Today Mr. Moley...
Professor Hotcombe for so many years say. Bert, this is the wrong story. Well, at any rate the CRIMSON has completed a long practice session and looks forward to little difficulty with their poor rivals who profess to know the manly art. In order that the score will not be too one sided, as it always is, the Command at the CRIMSON hideout for the past few days has been that the boys need not go into their annual spring training. And, what a sight the building has been for these past few days, what a sight...