Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this by middle-class Frenchmen was in contrast to their optimism a few hours before, ably mirrored by New York Timesman P. J. Philip in a cable anticipating formation of a National Government: "If it can be done, it is not unlikely that France will see a quick return to prosperity which will, as in 1926, prove surprising to those who, reading events superficially, are inclined to underestimate this country. For despite these prophets of evil the French situation-so far as internal matters are concerned-is not so desperate as many would like to think. France is very...
...juicy morsels of flies and slugs and it gradually absorbs them as its means of sustenance. The latter is more subtle and lazy--it makes no motions. Insects are lured into its pitcher-like growths and are so tangled and dazed by the intricacies within that they never return to daylight. Then there is the strange White Galla plant which spurts water from the tips of its leaves under a bright light...
...gives me considerable pleasure to see that the Crimson is supporting the return of Bernard De Voto to the Harvard Faculty, now that he has left his post as editor of The Saturday Review of Literature...
...other hand the Arnold Arboretum reported the sighting of a robin some time ago and added the comment that several others had probably been seen but that robins are so irregular in their date of return as not to fit reliably the harbinger role...
Bernard De Voto '18 will return to Cambridge to live next fall, according to a rumor steadily gaining credence in the College. Last month he resigned the editorship of the Saturday Review of Literature, a position he had held since he quit Harvard...