Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...rather a lotus-land, the private domain of Indifference. Cantabridgians would shy in dismay from any public demonstration of simple school spirit. But secretly most of them admit that all is not well here, that there might be a more ideal attitude. And certainly they would not wish to see Dartmouth hide its spontaneous war-whoops under a hypocritical cloak of assumed indifference. It is not for Harvard men, but they see something vital and healthy in the rah-rah spirit which pervades most of the nation's campuses. So back to the tepees of your fathers, young bucks...
...would like to see a great many smaller colleges all over the country instead of a few big educational factories such as Harvard has become," he said. "But perhaps Harvard has kept a good deal of the old New England tradition anyhow...
...musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected. In regard to his copying, examine "Fon To You" and you will find "Don't Be That Way" and "If Dreams Come True" in full splendor; "Dodging The Dean is made up of "Blue Skies" (Benny Goodman's arrangement) and "How Am I To Know...
...moon rotates on its axis in the same period in which it revolves around the earth. Consequently the moon presents nearly the same hemisphere toward the earth at all times. It is always the face of the "man in the moon" that we see and never the back of his head...