Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precipitate entrance at five-thirty of those who cannot bring their baser impulses into conformity with civilized eating habits and eating hours. Similarly woeful is the balaten epiphany at seven o'clock of those who would cast off barbarism, but cannot, because of college regulations. The barbarism I refer to is rightly named seven is just the beginning of the proper eating hour; and as for five-thirty, it is a wallowing in the fleshpots and an abomination before the Lord. Briefly, the time at which the House refectories are open should be set forward, and the dinner hours...
TIME lapses when it states that '"Vienna saved Europe." I refer to your account of the 250th anniversary of the siege of that city by Turkish hordes in their last great invasion of Europe [TIME, Sept, 25]. Although you make a brief allusion to the part played by King John Sobieski of Poland in dispersing the Turks you somewhat doubtfully add, "whoever won it, it was a great victory...
...objects to censorship by the Boston Police Department, where at least it is diverting; but in a university--a forum for minds--it is unthinkable. Yet censorship of a contemptibly petty stamp exists in this University. I refer to the use in certain language courses of texts in which the editors have seen fit to make deletions from the originals. Any one who has compared the authorized edition of Keller's "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" with the high school text now used in German 1a can appreciate how the editor of the latter has so subtly and judiciously...
...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
...might interest you to know that insofar as this particular appeal to decency is concerned you are not dealing merely with an insignificant little colored man and his colored followers or "blackamoors" as you choose to refer to them, and as Father Divine and His followers might appear to you, but rather this is addressed to you from and on behalf of those of your fellowmen who are considered as "white," and who believe incidentally that no man is a credit to any so-called race or color until he is first a gentleman...