Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools, the turning of headmasters into highly efficient administrative officers, the loss...
...student found this out the other day when composing a message which he intended to pack a considerable wallop. He remembered gloomily that the Federal Communications Commission had laws about forceful language, and he decided to put his problem to the Western Union girl point-blank...
...Artists (A. F. of L. affiliated) insists that this is not reason enough for half-pay. Last week A. F. R. A., having failed for a year to negotiate minimums of $15 a 15-minute program, $6 for the first rehearsal hour and $3 for each half-hour thereafter, put the case before its entire membership...
...Minister said in their half-hour chat remained officially undisclosed. Unofficially the Pontiff was reported to have pressed on the Prime Minister documents dealing with the destruction of Catholic lives and property in Loyalist Spain, and declared that, "as a means of restoring Christianity" to Spain, the Holy See put its hopes in a Franco victory. Mr. Chamberlain was said to have replied that he hoped the Spanish war would end soon...
...that I learn that the University is planning to put in a course in Marriage, I am wondering if there is not some organization that would like to send a student to our Marriage Conference. I am sending an invitation and ask that you give it to anyone who would like to come for the entire Conference, assuming that no one would care to come for only Thursday because that is student...