Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without gaining anybody else's. When Lenin was shot the Bolsheviks arrested Lockhart as a spy, held him in jail for a month. Lenin recovered; no evidence was found against Lockhart; he was allowed to leave Russia. He went back to England with a heavy heart, full of sad memories, gloomy forebodings...
...wholly satisfied with the Tutorial System. If would be a sad commentary on the System and myself if I were. But neither am I sure that drastic changes are in order. The system is relatively young, and expansive, and must gradually adapt itself to changing conditions. The chief difficulty of course is the expense. There should be many more tutors than there are at present. But tutors cost money and must also be given some liope of advancement. The next greatest difficulty is not with the system but with the students. Most students, I suppose, do not care to assume...
...Sad times have overtaken the foreign language Press in the U. S. The Immigration Quota Act of 1924 laid it low by cutting the influx of foreigners from 700,000 in that year to 35,000 last year. Depression has put a number of gasping sheets out of misery. Last fortnight saw the passing of two more: the 75-year-old New Jersey Freie Zeitung, and the famed old Milwaukee Vorwaerts, founded 40 years ago by the late Socialist Victor Louis Berger...
...send him $100,000. To do this they decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns out to be a Chinese prince; and that the gambler is a criminal called The Sea Crab who, also concerned with patriotic...
...will encounter a Harvard varsity hokey team that has been considerably chastened in the Crimson's next major battle at Princeton on January 14. Saturday night's overwhelming defeat, 8-1, at the hands of a whirlwind Toronto team n New York has left the Cambridge skaters in a sad plight. Although the Crimson got the jump at the start and repeatedly carried the puck to the visitor's cage, the Toronto goalie, Shipp, prevented a score by some miraculous stops during the first 15 minutes of the Harvard offense. It was not until the second period that the Canadians...