Word: reference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back snapped Speaker Garner: "It would be just as logical to refer to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation act as a 'pork barrel' for the banks, insurance companies, railroads and financial institutions of the country. . . . The Democrats did not expect to receive real co-operation from the President in any manner benefiting the masses...
...started fairly quietly with a debate on the administration of justice in Prussia and the election of Hitlerite Hans Kerrl (who likes to refer to Adolf Hitler as "Germany's Jesus Christ") as President of the Diet. Suddenly up sprang Communist Wilhelm Pieck. Shaking his fist at the Fascist benches he screamed: "In your ranks there sit a huge number of murderers...
Sirs: Please refer to TIME, May 2, p. 26, to a paragraph reading as follows: 'Often surprising are the brain's reactions to violent injury. A prize exhibit of Harvard's bright & cheery Warren Anatomical Museum, into which the public cannot get, is the Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence...
...many years students of rival academies have referred to the Prix de Rome painters as "Little Savages" (TIME, May 19, 1930, May 18, 1931). By this they refer to Yale's Leffingwell Professor of Painting & Design, bristle-lipped Eugene Francis Savage, a muralist best known as the decorator of that amazing fane, the Elks National Memorial in Chicago. Professor Savage is an active member of the Fine Arts committee of the American Academy in Rome. Almost all recent winners of the Prix de Rome have painted in the manner of Eugene Francis Savage. Finding little in their own time...
Doubtless fear of those tactless persons who haunt professors' teas and refer to instructors as "Ted" and "Jack" is sufficient ground for the seclusion in which many members of the faculty envelop themselves; the press of important work also furnishes a ready and valid excuse. But when graduates tell fondly of their familiarity with Dean Briggs, and students respect scholars like Professor Copeland the more for the interest which they take in their students, there can be no hesitation in saying that "contacts" are a major part of an education. Facts are soon forgotten, but men and their ideals...