Word: reported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Keezer retaliated by barring the team from all college laboratories and libraries for five days (one day for each victory). President & faculty also began to talk darkly of redeeming Reed's scholastic reputation by paying football players not to come to Reed. In his annual report to the trustees, President Keezer grumped: "I would be happier if football were abandoned entirely." Last straw was an attempt to arrange a "Brain Bowl" game between Reed and oft-trounced University of Chicago. President Keezer put a stop to that...
...football game, staff members of The Yale Record, undergraduate funnypaper, planted a spurious edition of The Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily. Alarmed Harvard-men read that President James Bryant Conant had resigned, would be replaced by Yaleman Robert Maynard Hutchins, president of the University of Chicago. Also headlined was a report that Football Coach Richard Cresson Harlow, who is also a Harvard associate in oology, would become a Yale professor of ornithology because "ornithology has always been my main interest and I have always maintained that birds lay bigger and better eggs than the Harvard backfield...
This week in Manhattan the committee issued a dismally illustrated "Preliminary Report." It was promptly denounced by Secretary Evan Just of the Tri-State Zinc & Lead Ore Producers Association as "damned blackmail." The report contains no harrowing Gauley Bridge tales of mass burials and walking skeletons. It offers only Government statistics, a short medical treatise on silicosis, eyewitness accounts of Tri-State life. What distinguishes the committee's report from most of the 50-odd other silicosis reports which have come out in the last 20 years is the fact that it treats silicosis not as a disease...
...view of the report that the so-called 'Christian Front' is strenuously endeavoring to increase its forces by inviting Protestants into its membership, we are compelled to warn Protestant people against accepting such invitations and overtures. ... No organization or group of individuals fostering such evil propaganda which has resulted in numerous acts of violence in our city has the moral right to call itself Christian. . . . Any group using the name of Christ for any purpose foreign to His character is either ignorant of Christian fundamentals or else they are guilty of practicing inexcusable hypocrisy...
...altogether easy. . . . The making of a really good reverie demands considerable effort of energy and imagination. How," asks the author, ''can the American woman who buys her bread sliced and her peas shelled be expected to concoct her own reveries?" The best parts of the book report how Hollywood concocts them...