Word: save
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place of this response, future Councils, especially those of the next two years, will be armed with several devices that may give Harvard students more of what they want from their Student Council. Popular election of all members save three, representation on a combined House-class basis, and a much improved system of nominations are all mechanisms that will bring the individual Council member to a closer identification with larger groups within the undergraduate body. The College has thus been given an outline which could turn elections into open reviews of issues concerning students generally, and a nominating procedure which...
...getting many Jewish musicians out of danger (e.g. Carl Flesch). One noted English pianist, however, who was asked to join a group to defend the conductor, told me that the only reply she could make was: "Don't talk to me about Flesch; how many babies did he save? Of the little children who were taken from their mothers to be raised in camps and loaded into trucks until they suffocated from overcrowding, how many did Furtwangler save...
...Nevertheless, the Union management goes ahead with plans that include a music room, to be open within a week, a photography room, more and perhaps even cheaper dances, the clubs, and a weekly showing of movies from the University's film library. This is an all-out effort to save the annex ceiling further greasing...
...nothing could better summarize the state of the Hungarian nation than the one thing Budapesters have managed to save from the wreckage: their famed wit. Once gay as a gypsy's bow and spicy as goulash á la Szekely, the jokes circulating through Budapest cafés last week were bitter...
...There is no cure for the common cold; U.S. doctors could save their patients millions of dollars on nostrums annually if they frankly admitted...