Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place it should be understood that the Conference has been framed from the point of view of the College undergraduates. Editors of the undergraduate dailies take part only to the extent necessary for organization. It can readily be seen that the undergraduates as a nebulous mass would be unable to assemble any such group as the Conference will draw, and it is for this purpose alone that the "Crimson" has taken the initiative at Harvard...
...Dykstra. But you can't cooperate in chaos. Mr. Dykstra as City Manager knew all factors, all agencies, their place and capacities, and as such was properly made Disaster Administrator. He appointed a Central Disaster Committee and they, representative of all groups, functioning with City Hall, have seen that each group has had its place and each emergency has been met without overlapping, confusion or bombastic gestures...
...proposal began to take form, the Republicans generally leaving the leadership to Democrats in order not to make it a partisan issue. Democratic Senator Burke of Nebraska described the bill as ''the most direct attack on the independence of our judiciary which the country has seen." Democratic Senator King of Utah declared, 'T most certainly do not approve. . . ." Democratic Senator Glass, at home in Lynchburg. Va., snorted at newshawks, "I thought it was generally understood that I was opposed to any tinkering with the Supreme Court...
...correspondents thus far permitted to interview General Jose Miaja, valiant "Defender of Madrid," have mostly been given whispered warnings by his secretary: "Please do not mention his family! Only twice in my life have I seen the General weep-he is most courageous-but please not to mention his family. Hostages, you know! They have been held since the beginning of the war in Morocco, and the General knows that at any moment they may be shot...
While sheiks gaped, burros reared and camels stopped chewing their cuds, over the long yellow ripples of the Syrian Desert at 65 m.p.h. last week whizzed a vehicle the like of which neither Iraq nor any other place in the world had ever seen. It was the world's first stainless-steel sleeper-trailer bus, built in Philadelphia by E. G. Budd Manufacturing Co. for the 600-mile run between Bagdad and Damascus. On this long trip with its one watering place-the oasis at Rutba Wells-the road is marked for only 200 miles...