Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bush-bearded Representative George Holden Tinkham (Republican) of Massachusetts believes that the best way to get re-elected to Congress is to leave the voters alone, go hunting wild animals in Africa, return only in time to vote for himself. This system has served him well for twelve consecutive terms. Last week he announced he would employ it this year as usual...
...Return Relief to the States...
...others who are graduating from the colleges and universities of America this month. They leave behind them tomorrow a few names already famous, many more destined to become famous in the future, some who will be failures, a sprinkling of ditch-diggers-to-be. In return for four years here they have left behind several thousand dollars at Lehman Hall, a few really grand moments which the newspapers, the public, and their fellows have sometimes made grander, sometimes ignored. And now, Harvard--a hundred assorted buildings, a thousand heterogeneous individuals on the Faculty, countless millions of ideas in limbo...
...qualified interpreter in Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili. His naval training prepared him specifically for Nessie, for during the War he devised and carried out all British harbor defense against hostile submarines. Last week his round, disappointed-looking face was brightening with hope, not for shareholders ("they may never get a return on their money"), but for the fair name of science: "It is time," said he, "that the scientific world was taking The Thing seriously, and I have made this move with that purpose in view...
Three stories attempt more complex situations. In the subtlest of these. Return to Lavinia, a storekeeper returns from his honeymoon with a schoolteacher, reassures his mulatto housekeeper that she will always come first...