Word: rabidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vital points may be deduced from the Tory tactics of the Physics Department. First, that Harvard is trading upon its tradition in order to progress without nurturing it; second, that the teaching function of the tutors in the field of the sciences is consciously put into the hands of rabid specialists...
...intelligent people could be as wise before the fact as after it, few of them would be fooled into war hysteria. Many an intelligent oldster now feels less than proud, remembering the rabid slaverings of himself and the rest of the pack during the hue & cry of the World War. But in 20 years the world-at-large has forgotten how mad it was. Last week those who still had eyes to see and ears to hear were treated to the most dispassionate analysis yet rendered of how and why the U. S. was gradually sucked into Europe...
...year-around sport has been developed at Harvard, and is being followed by a small but rabid bunch of enthusiasts, and its name is basketball. For the second year in a row, as soon as the spring football practice sessions have ended, End Coach Wes Fesler has rapidly metamorphosed into Cage Coach Fesler, and the moleskins and dirt of the Briggs Cage have been exchanged for the shorts and the hardwood floor of the New Indoor Athletic Building...
SOVIET RUSSIA AND REPUBLICAN FRANCE were changed from secret enemies into secret bedfellows by mounting mutual hate & fear of Adolf Hitler, rabid anti-Red and anti-Republican. Symbol of this Franco-Russian bedding was Soviet Russia's admission to the League of Nations with French Foreign Minister Barthou as chief sponsor. He and Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff had meanwhile secretly begotten in draft form the Eastern Locarno Pact first revealed by M. Barthou at London (July 8, 1934), today the diplomatic white hope of Europe. Rumor persists that he and Comrade Litvinoff arranged a Russo-French military entente...
Laymen for whom Stravinsky's music holds an almost pagan quality are surprised to hear that he is ardently religious, says his prayers and goes regularly to the Russian Orthodox Church. But even with his faith and fervor Stravinsky has remained a rabid hypochondriac, always worrying over his own and everyone else's health. His nervous hope last week was that U. S. audiences would be more understanding than the customs officer who picked a package of wordless scores from his luggage and asked him in what language he had written them...