Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling the London Conference "the best news in weeks." the London Times showed candidly what Europe is getting at by the remark: "It would be . . . ridiculous to suggest that the stabilization of world commodity prices is independent of the problem of international debts...
...often we hear the remark that Harvard put a premium on scholarship at the expense of teaching ability. The Vagabond does not care to argue the point; he only regrets that a man who so well combines both talents should be leaving the University, that once again a Jonah is being swallowed up in Wales. Who in History 1 will so well uphold the traditions established by Professor Merriman in the first half, including the excellent one of making the late-coming Freshman acutely conscious of his low place in the scale of things? After this morning there will...
...rose in the Senate on Dec. 10, 1930 Mississippi's Democratic Pat Harrison, arch-baiter of the G. 0. P., to remark: ''For the last 18 months Herbert Hoover has shown that he has not only ditched the United States but he has drained the whole world." The alliteration was later expanded but Senator Harrison is credited with giving the phrase its first political currency. He took it from a constituent's letter. The letter has been lost; the constituent remains nameless...
...became his god. William hated to leave at night. Probably he wouldn't have left if Brit hadn't told him he should go to night school. One day when Brit was not in the office and someone called William to do a chore, he uttered a remark that became an office classic. He was sitting in his cubby-hole among the piled up out-of-town newspapers. Instead of coming out at once when called, he answered: 'I am busy...
...York's small Bishop Manning agreed to come. An honorary canon of Washington Cathedral, he would preach later in the day. Eyeing the light, airy choir, Bishop Manning might reflect that his own Cathedral of St. John the Divine is bigger but darker. He might also recall a remark Bishop Freeman made in Manhattan some years ago, when both Cathedrals were campaigning for money: "If Washington is not more powerful than New York, then the Capitol ought to be transferred to New York...