Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mouth when he talks; 3) he likes to sleep until 11 a. m., then brunches, sees visitors, plays squash or tennis; 4) he then works until 1 or 2 a. m., after that he sees movies; 5) he likes newsreels of Mussolini, of which he once saw seven in one night; 7) he says that sometimes he likes what Mussolini does, sometimes he doesn...
...stands revolted by a bloody pogrom against a defenseless people. Every instinct in us cries out in protest against the outrages which have taken place in Germany during the last five years and which sank to new depths in the organized frenzies of the last few days. . . . If you saw a gang of cowardly ruffians set upon a helpless man in a public street and proceed to beat him, you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw a fanatical mob pillage and burn a church or a synagogue you wouldn't long remain silent. If you saw...
...ttingen and Leyden, joined the University of Rome faculty in 1927. Short, wiry, dapper and cheerful, he has visited the U. S. several times, speaks heavily accented English, likes skiing, tennis. Some time ago Benito Mussolini, who is not insensitive to the prestige of Italian science, saw to it that Fermi got a fine new laboratory...
Last week Professor Cubberley & wife happily saw their building dedicated. Dr. Cubberley made no speech, refused to let the building be named for him. Said he: "After all, since I wrote and sold my books partly because of my capacity as professor here, we feel the University is entitled to the profits." Taking charge of the new building is Dr. Cubberley's own choice as his successor, 38-year-old Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver, who has already made Stanford's School of Education a famed centre of progressive education...
...Armistice of 1918 gave free play to one memorable artistic movement-Dada. All perversity and insults to one school of critics, Dada seemed significant to others, who saw in its course from 1916 to 1924 a sensitive revulsion against a bad war and a bad peace...