Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conant was the chief speaker of the morning. Touching only minutely on his recent suggestion to limit enrollment, he said that "for purposes of intellectual endeavor change is surely essential, but here expansion may not even be desirable...
Sirs: Clark Alvord of Eldorado Canyon, Nev., oldtime prospector and desert rat, whose recent death was noted in your issue of Jan. 24 because of the fact that Miss Marion Davies had been made residuary legatee of his estate, was a man of original ideas. When I first met him, some 20 years ago, he tried to sell me a group of undeveloped mining claims he owned. They did not impress me favorably, but to humor him I asked the price. He scratched his head and pondered. "Well," he said finally, "I've held those claims for 20 years...
...Told last week in the National Press Club's monthly sheetlet was a story about some reporters who tried to outsmart the President at a recent Press Club dinner. On the back of a menu they wrote: "I hereby nominate Herbert Bratter [a Washington writer] as Ambassador to the North Pole." Folding the menu so that these words were hidden, they passed it to the President to autograph. When the menu was returned, they discovered that the President had unfolded it, struck out "North," inserted "South," added: "(North Pole already occupied...
...against foreign alliances. The fatal smell of 1917 is still too heavy in the air. On the other hand, the U. S. people will buy almost anything -from a piece of the power business to the world's biggest breadline-and 74% of the citizens canvassed in a recent Gallup poll were eager to buy a big navy, the kind of Big Navy that Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for two weeks...
With the Boston K. of C. Meet comeback of Joe McClusky in the two-mile two weeks ago, the longer distance will surpass the mile classic tonight. Glen Cunningham is generally conceded the mile in the light of his easy recent victories and the fact that San Romani was badly spiked last week in the Millrose Games. So tonight the fans will be hanging over the balconies for a McClusky-Don Lash duel...