Word: repressively
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...ruling should not be taken to mean that Harvard University intends in the future to clamp down on minority views--to repress unpopular causes in the Yard. Little basis for such accusations may be found in the records of the Dean's Office. Harvard's Young Communist League, for instance, has not in the past been prevented from distributing its flyers, although because it fears discrimination, it has refused to register at University Hall. Under the new regulations, such outlaw groups will still be liable to suppression. But Dean von Stade assures us this will not be the case. Official...
...were made almost a decade ago but are still excellent. Among numerous single $1 discs, at least one-Pianist Paderewski's performance of Chopin's Polonaise in E Flat Minor-suffers from surface noise, low recording volume. With its catalogue of 7,500 matrices from which to repress, Victor could claim that it had the edge on Decca in quality; that it can now fill what seems to have become an enormous U. S. demand for low-priced discs...
...Board exams than he is besieged with printed matter from the college of his choice. Completely unnerved by the exams, he diligently reads the reams of material with which the denizens of University Hall flood the mail. These loyal members of Harvard's official staff all through the winter repress their urge for self-expression knowing that with the first spring robin will come the chance to draw a detailed "Letter to Incoming Freshmen...
...masseur named Louis Duncan, who tells what happened in the Cornish household of his client, Mrs. Nance, after she had called him down from London to give her treatments. In 15 years of blindness, Duncan has learned to use his other senses with extraordinary acuteness, has even learned to repress his visual fantasies, thinking in terms of touch, hearing, smell. Handshakes and voices inform him of individuals he meets, except for Mrs. Nance's niece, Sophie Madron, who intrigues him by not shaking hands. He deduces that she is a more passionate as well as a more fastidious person...
...major fight start, we're sure to go in. Our best chance is in the policy toward which our government is moving, to apply our pressures wherever possible upon the side where, they will tend to repress aggressive action, realizing that to be effective in this desperate game means being not afraid to call a bluff when it is made. The best way to stay out of war is not being afraid to go into it. --The Yale News...