Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been written about the indifference which supposedly breathes in Harvard's "brilliant but cold" Georgian buildings, in the social life of its myriad inhabitants, and in the attitude of the University as a whole toward life and liberalism, that upperclassmen and graduates can only growl feebly when they read them. Like communism the word indifference has a kind of African mystery to it, as thought if analyzed, it might explode in one's face and release snakes and tigers. Really it is the tool of description for those who do not understand a social condition easily explained by Henry...
...days Justice Pecora pondered, then convened his court, announced he would hand down his decision. With the courtroom locked, he read in a firm, dry voice a flat and lawyerlike end to one of the most sensational cases in New York jurisprudence. Because Defendant Hines was charged only with conspiracy to "contrive a lottery," said he, the question about the poultry racket was improper and prejudicial, the request for a mistrial was granted...
...earth-shaking thud of thousands of large feet goose-stepping at Nürnberg; gargantuan mass drills with shovels, guns, artillery, war planes, brass bands, dumbbells; a solemn annual service for dead Nazi martyrs-these the world hardly noticed, for everywhere people asked "War?" and tried to read the answer in the Nürnberg speeches of Big Nazis...
...often visits the London zoo, where he makes friends with the elephants and stables his mongoose, Rikki. In his first picture, Sabu memorized the sound of English words, spoke them without understanding. Now, having packed a lifetime's schooling into two years, he not only speaks and reads English but can read French and Latin as well, hopes to get into Oxford in three years. Last week, Sabu sailed on the Aquitania for his first visit to the U. S., in the course of which he will attend the première of Drums, call on Mrs. Roosevelt, meet...
...shoe factory Stoyan got $7 a week; room was 50? a month, board $1 a week. In his spare time he hung out in a Greek coffee shop, whose proprietor used words like "status quo," "ukase," gave attentive Stoyan the valuable advice that "you must learn to read, write and speak English in one operation." He told him to read signs, wrappers on packages, etc., for, said the Greek, "English is spread all over, like a rug, like a picture. . . . And behind it is America...