Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small comfort to say, "Well the same thing happened in 1926 when we lost the curtain raiser to Geneva, and then we didn't do so badly after that." For the Brown game should have been won; Harvard did not click often, but when they did, they were the best team...
Better and less critical medicine is to say that the Harlowmen had been told all about how tough Brown was going to be, but they still could not believe it until it was too late. Psychologically the reaction was all in Brown's favor...
Like North Americans, South Americans listen to long-wave broadcasts from local stations. They laugh at U. S. attempts to play tangos, but are interested in every thing President Roosevelt has to say, while baffled by reports of Presidential fishing trips. Their own commercial radio stations give them entertainment which is almost 100% sponsored, do not pretend to any interest in furnishing free entertainment education. Advertisements are liberally inserted between musical numbers, for a higher fee between the announcement of a piece of music and its performance. South American airtime is sold not so much by hours, as by minutes...
...Mecca." Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory is not only unique in England; it has no parallel in the world. To create its like, it would be necessary to snatch two or three top-flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics...
Self-styled a "forum for interchanging world experience in all phases of management," last week's convention was held in Washington's capacious Chamber of Commerce building, drew a full complement of U. S. tycoons. But what they had to say along the standard themes of U. S. management problems lost the spotlight to the embarrassed remarks of the European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will...