Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business slump of last fall, (the Roosevelt Recession), had by winter weakened President Roosevelt's hold upon Congress to the slipping point. Entering an election year, no Congress obeys a second-term President whose popularity is on the skids. But the Recession gave Franklin Roosevelt a reason for thinking about other things besides reforms, and a long, windy, fruitless digression by Congress on the subject of lynching gave him time to calculate. In late January, he created a diversion by calling for a Big Navy. In February, he called for $250,000,000 extra money for Relief. In April...
...kind of reunion: A reunion to which men come and learn about Harvard and its aims, and which they can leave, go into town and village, and fight for this new philosophy. Only this will make reunions truly worthwhile. Only this will enable graduates to obey the second half of the old command: ". . . go forth to serve...
Beginning at 11:30 o'clock this morning with the literary exercises in the Kirkland House triangle, Class Day, gayest festival of the Harvard year, will be celebrated all today and far into the night. The age-old confetti battle in the Stadium and the second of the Harvard-Yale baseball series in the afternoon, are other highlights of the holiday program, in which graduating Seniors and their guests, share the spotlight with the reunion classes back in Cambridge for a week of renewal of the old ties...
...lethargy when Shean, drawing a pass, legged it for third as Johns boosted a two bagger close to the foul line in left field. Lupieh walked, but all three were stranded when Jubitz fauned pinch hitter Bacon and Grondahl, and then forced Hoye to drive out to Loveday at second...
...first stories are told with almost straight humor. Example: Ineligible for the football banquet because he has no girl to take, a high-school second-string player gets a miraculous date with the prettiest girl in the State. But at the banquet he ignores her completely- he just wanted a big feed...