Word: return
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Noisy & Hopeful. Not until two months ago did Clen Ryan return to New York politics. This time his entry was noisy and his ambitions were high; he might even be a mayor-maker again...
...worried about the wind of the cold, however. The average lacrosse player is a pretty tough baby; a few gusts of March wind can scarcely affect someone who spends several hours a day enthusiastically clubbing fellow men with a four to six foot long stave, and being clubbed in return...
...weekly heap of dirty clothes is a problem that varying Harvard men solve in varying ways. Some carefully pack their laundry in neat cardboard cases, lug them down to the Post Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...
...twenty-four lucky winners will spend their holiday plying up and down the Charles often to the extent of 20-odd miles a day. By this process a fairly definite varsity boating will have emerged by the time the rest of us return to Cambridge...
Bradley, a member of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee which aided the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War, urged the audience to recognize the prevalent tendency in this country which he claimed is toward a fascist state and preparation for war. He advocated a "return to the old ideals...