Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this day and age of football when the "passing" game is quite exacting, I see no reason why in your Oct. 23 issue, you should not be equally as exacting when you refer to me as the "late Big Bill Edwards. . . ." TIME has certainly fumbled the ball. Let me say that my physical condition is pretty good and that I am able to get around with my 282 pounds and not miss much that is going on and around the springboard at my Connecticut camp...
...Germans and colored folk like their sermons long" (TIME, Oct. 16). Let me say, first, that I like your usual use of similes, metaphors, and adjectives and it is probably true that a great many colored folk like this type of sermon. But in a world sick with prejudice, I hate to have TIME help prejudice along in one of our most pressing domestic problems. To generalize upon the colored people, putting them alongside of Hitler and the Germans ... is not a way to work for democracy...
CAMBRIDGE, November 3 (WUPS)--Say, Bokum and Wilson Harvard White wash Tigers. Spreyer Crimson score Grose fast, if it a Pearson further thought. The Wieman's chance isn't Worth much--Weishelt, he can't Winston, Were going to Wade through little Aubray. If we can Helden the Balentine we'll Tierney down the field. Oh Meyerhols your breath. But all your Jackson the Crimson for all's Wells that ends well. Alterdice are for Harvard--Will Rice to the occasion...
...Center. Its informality would breed friendship rather than contempt. Before long it would become the undergraduate center; debates, talks, and bull sessions would take place there. College students would be in fruitful contact with Harvard not two but twenty hours a day. No longer could George Ticknor's ghost say that "In Cambridge, the library is one of the last things thought and talked about...
Last night's additions bring the grand total of aspirants to 65. The judges of the contest, who have been examining the entries to get a line on the girls, refused to state any pre-contest preferences, but did say they had uncovered some "interesting details...