Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time athletic competition, particularly football. The accusations, the organization and the values it involves will probably leave their mark on the American educational system for some time to come. Even though a more fully developed intra-mural system seems, one of the most promising solutions yet tried, the status quo is firmly entrenched. Whatever the solution one aspect of the question, is today before the student body: as Harvard was the first to build a vast stadium with its money guzzling and money producing propensities, let us hope that she may be among the first to solve the problems which...
...Italy is concerned the integrity of present territories of Spain shall in all circumstances remain intact and unmodified." When Der Führer's correspondent asked II Duce if the setting up at Barcelona or elsewhere in Spain of a Soviet State would "destroy the status quo in the Mediterranean," which Britain and Italy have just pledged themselves to abide by, the Dictator snorted: "Obviously...
...Manhattan's Town Hall, Author Christopher Morley debated his brother, Editor Felix Morley of the Washington Post on the topic: "Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?" Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: "Felix is a diplomat of the status quo- he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand." Cornered at a Methodist Bishop's Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine...
Despite this plug for merit, the law's love for the status quo found reflection in a report of the committee on the "increasing number of governmental bureaus and boards." Declaimed Delaware Delegate James R. Morford: "We must guard in any proposed alteration of our inefficient political bureaucracy against the very real dangers which inhere in a non-political and efficient bureaucracy. One permanent threat to liberty is involved in the future development of civil service...
These smooth words can mean anything in Spain, for Italy has recognized the Whites as the government of that country, while Britain continues to recognize the government against which the Whites are fighting. In these circumstances II Duce could and did contribute to maintaining the status quo in Spain last week by sending another 10,000 Italian troops to aid the Whites (see p. 23) and this did not seem to shock official Britain. In an annex to the pact, Count Ciano declared, with particular reference to the Balearics, that "so far as Italy is concerned the integrity of present...