Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watch is one of the traditions of his family. As a University of Minnesota man I would like to report on the regrettable lack of family traditions out here in the Middle West. Traditions are much undervalued: even opposed. Not long ago I heard another University of Minnesota man remark, "Can you imagine it-my whole family religiously eats Wheaties every morning!" I considered the remark interesting in that it illustrates the blind resistance of Minnesota men to the growth of tradition. In this case I strongly suspected that a few traditions would do the young man's family...
...Anyone who is acquainted with American University graduates in the liberal and radical movements must remark the high proportion of Harvard men," the article states. Brief reference is made to the radical activities of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Oswald Garrison Villard '93, Felix Frankfurter, Lloyd K. Garrison '19, prominently mentioned as a candidate to succeed Dean Pound of the Law School, and many others...
...political speech when his first sentence comes up for appeal this week. Without pausing for breath, deaf M. Maurras ran on: "Personally, I am for the sacred sanctions of the kitchen knife.* M. Blum is not the master, to send the people to the slaughterhouse." Unwilling to let this remark go unanswered, the judge stood up, leaned across the bench and shouted at M. Maurras: "M. Blum is in a difficult position. If he is for war, you say he deserves the kitchen knife. If he is against war, he will be accused of being a coward in giving...
...back, through France: "Rigor mortis has set in in Paris.") Prepared to be sympathetic with Russia, he discovered many a Soviet custom that turned his U. S. stomach. In Moscow, he says, it is true that people always look over their shoulders before hazarding a political remark; he got the habit himself. The suppression of publicity has resulted in a plethora of scandalous rumors. Glasses of tea are always too hot to pick up conveniently. The food is too heavy. Vodka, the national drink, is simply a form of raw alcohol. Russian wastebaskets are so wide-meshed that everything falls...
Roger B. Merriman '94, Master of the House and donor of the bowls, inaugurated the bowling season last week by tossing the first set. Finding it difficult to control his power, however, be soon withdrew. John M. Potter '26, head tutor, confined his activity to remarking on the excellent condition of the green, a remark obviously aimed at numerous loudly voiced opinions that their technique was not entirely to blame for their poor shots...