Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same thing a bit!" said the Hatter. "Why, you might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what...
Similarly, if TIME insists that the Japanese call their mountain "Mr. Fuji" [TIME, Aug. 21], it might as well say that the Japanese call "God" "paper" and "paper" "God" simply because the two words are homonyms (along with the word for hair-all being transliterated as kami...
Racketbuster Dewey interrupted his first political trip (see p. 13) to say that the Federal Government could lock Lepke up for only two years while he could jail him for 500. Thereupon, U. S. District Attorney John Cahill arraigned and indicted sweating Louis Buchalter on ten counts of narcotic smuggling that might tuck him in prison for 164 years. Dewey men cooled their heels in the U. S. Court...
Students Want More Say...
...Administration, however, did not answer the petitions. Even a Student Council resolution urging Feild's reappointment brought no word from the President's offices in University Hall. Today Harvard undergraduates are as far from having any say in the administration of their college as they were in the seventeenth century, when they rioted against horse-meat in Commons