Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are sad times. Since the turn of the century industrialization has captured the United States and turned many of the simple pleasures and traditions out to pasture. Like the spinning wheel, the pony express, and the riverboat, like the Post Road and the small country trail, many of the institutions which we associate with early America have been renovated or replaced--no longer considered adequate for the hustle and bustle of twentieth century America...
...people have taken such a beating as the Harvard professors," sad Seymour E. Harris '20, professor of Economics. He went on to point out that teachers "contribute so much to the well-being of the nation and this is a relatively small repayment...
...thinking citizen, the Lieutenant is a pretty sad apple. He doesn't particularly care whether he lives or dies, since all his friends are being killed off, and he is not interested in returning to his home and attempting to rebuild it into a better world. "Not after all this," he says. The Lieutenant is fighting simply to give him something to do until he gets killed. When one of his men goes berserk and is accidentally shot, he remarks in one sentence that it is too bad, but he disobeyed orders...
...Sad Experience. Some delegates at U.N. declared themselves annoyed by the Senate resolutions, huffed & puffed about "unwarranted pressure." Others were impressed by the Senate resolutions' simplicity and firmness. There was no doubt that the Senate's action had strengthened at least a few spines...
...next. Its position: firmly with the U.S. Then a man took the floor who should have given the laggards among the delegates some uneasy moments. He was Ato Gachaou Zallaka, a small, neat Ethiopian. In a fast, four-minute speech delivered in French, he simply warned that the "sad experience" of the League of Nations, which permitted his country to be invaded, should not be repeated...