Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Social Democrats were displeased and puzzled when Tanner talked about "our German friends." They attempted to dismiss his remark by saying he must have had a couple of acquavitas. Though camouflaged with the job of Commerce Minister, Väinö Tanner, as leader of Finland's largest party, is the strong man of Finland. He hates Bolshevism, but is afraid to accept Soviet Karelia lest Russia win the war and swallow Finland. He dislikes the Nazis, but is afraid to run out of the war lest they swallow Finland...
...were particularly reminded of this tragic situation by the remark of a friend made recently to the effect that a certain idea "was spreading all over the campus." To our remonstrances he replied that he was not referring to the Yard (which in September is full of Freshmen, not ideas), but to the House system...
About the only clowning Frank Kovacs has permitted himself this year is to develop a "cosmic" forehand. Last week a spectator was heard to remark that Bobby Riggs knew how to take the "s" out of "cosmic...
Fight for Freedom rapped back that if Colonel Smith's remark was what the General Staff thought, the Staff needed overhauling. Meanwhile, Second Army's Ben Lear, who has had enough personal publicity, was silent. Major Griffin, bewildered by the storm kicked up by Fight for Freedom, could only murmur: "I thought I was on their team...
...Senator Walter F. George of Georgia made this remark last week. Senator George, who until three weeks ago was Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was giving his personal opinion-but he had some pretty good reasons for holding the opinion...