Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make another successful attempt so soon. In other words, the well may be nearly dry. And even if the well is half full, there may be hesitation about contributing for fear that a precedent will be set. Two large-scale appeals in the course of some weeks are rather frightening, though the Committee has wisely postponed its drive until the next semester. The exception of making appeals outside the supposedly all-inclusive Student Council appeal should not become a frequent practice...
...fact that the poll ... deals with general policies rather than with specific acts or measures makes it even more astounding that Yale opinion is so completely conservative. Perhaps Yale conservatives are more simply honest in their opposition to government regulation than most standpatters, but certainly this poll indicates that realization of the inevitability of government regulation of private enterprise has not come to a great many Yale students as yet. These men are pursuing an ostrich-like policy. --Yale News
Away off in the hills of Hanover, Coach Osborne Cowles has been rather silent about Dartmouth's enhances to defend its Eastern intercollegiate League Championship successfully, fearing that the loss of two Big Green standouts, Bob MacLeod and Joe Cottone would be too much to overcome...
...comprises 30 to 40% of all cancers in the U. S., kills more people than any other type. But thousands of deaths can be prevented if all patients suffering from "stomach trouble" are given routine gastroscopic examinations. Although the flexible gastroscope is an aid to the X-ray rather than a substitute for it, it enables a properly-trained physician to discover tiny ulcers and tumors which have just begun to grow and cannot be detected by Xray. The gastroscope has also demonstrated the frequency of chronic inflammation of the stomach...
...Warriner, became General's president. Truster Groves used his associates to put over his deals, used one trust to buy another. The involved nature of these deals inspired one of his directors to write this spicy note: "We may seem (to you) unduly sensitive to public, or rather informed financial opinion. The reason is that those who disregarded this opinion seem, in the end, to be 'unlucky...