Word: send
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan for a war in which "mankind might derive a biological benefit" requires that the minimum age limit for service should be set at 45 years. Professor Hooton also adds that he would send out the statesmen and diplomats that make wars "to lead reconnoitering parties, as did the late General Werner von Fritsch...
...these men give their words weight beyond their worth, so that they should give long and serious thought to the subject before making any statement. It is especially disquieting that leaders of youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon and so openly the words that may send to destruction the lives in their charge. They are earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build for the United States a super-highway straight to Armageddon...
...London, Prime Minister Chamberlain announced that the Admiralty was already putting into operation a "prearranged plan" to cope with all this. The plan was apparently to send out part of Britain's American squadron, the cruisers York, Berwick, Exeter, to look for the raider...
Prominent undergraduates formed a "Student Committee to Save Harvard Education," got an approving send-off from the Crimson. Meanwhile Harvard's entire faculty began to hold extraordinary sessions behind closed doors to debate the affair. Conservative Harvard sentiment was summed up by Mathematics Professor Marshall Harvey Stone, son of U. S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone: "I believe the situation now existing is unhealthy to the point of gravity...
...home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with...