Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Sperry, sporting the familiar crimson the emblazoned against a white shirt, rose to address the gathering with a few remarks. Whereas President Conant did not attempt to define a "liberal education," Dean Sperry borrowed from William James what he thinks should be derived from a college education, "The object of a college education is to enable you to recognize a real man when...
...dealing with governmental piracy!" cried Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff soon after the curtain rose. "Everyone knows its aims and the name of the State that is responsible is on everyone's lips [Italy], but it cannot be mentioned in this hall...
...project. The hiss of steam as he inexpertly spilled half the giant spoon's earth near the waiting truck was not less searingly exultant than the blast that came from the swart, little Mayor of New York: "This will be to Newark as Kirsten Flagstad is to Gypsy Rose...
...educators and historians can compare her new book with her old for a picture of changes that have come over U. S. manners during the 15 years in which Prohibition had its heyday and departed, in which the jazz age ran its course, in which women's skirts rose and fell and rose again like the curtain on a play, in which radio, automobiles, airplanes, and divorce altered the tempo of U. S. life. Examples of the new Etiquette's changes and additions...
...price of tungsten was $2.50 a ton. Last year it rose to $7. Fortnight ago it rocketed to $25. Last week the metal market was alarmed over a possible shortage, for China declared that she would withhold her tungsten from world markets as long as the war continues. Prices of high-speed tools at once rose...