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Dates: during 1930-1939
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LONDON--The Admiralty announced tonight that a "wild" mine had sunk the British destroyer Gipsy, seventh British naval vessel lost since the start of the war, within sight of the English east coast...
...remains that democracy, Americanism--call it what you will--is more a matter of emotion than cold logic. When an American sees the statue in the Lincoln Memorial, he does not see merely the image of a great President. A thousand and one connotations are called up by that sight--the struggle for the Union, the defeat of slavery, in fact, the whole "American dream." Knowing this fact, Capra has played upon it to the limit. Let him who can find a better foundation for democracy cast the first words of criticism...
...relief expedition was being readied. In a Portland (Me.) berth, the 118-ft. yacht Liberty, under Capt. Kenneth Simpson, ordered provisions for a South Sea voyage. At Panama, Liberty planned to pick up Pitcairn's radio equipment, mail, whatever else it could find room for, hoped to sight the islands by Christmas...
...that ever since Jimmy started his band, he has had the best all-around combination in the country. We've said this for two years now, predicting that he would go to the top very shortly, and Jimmy has saved our face by breaking every record in sight with the most disgusting regularity for the past nine months. Down in Atlantic City this summer with lots of the name bands around, including his brother Tommy, Jimmy managed to gather some thousands of dance fans around for a new house record. Reason for this sort of thing is very simple: Jimmy...
...apparent in the brief life of the new dispensation. In its simplest form the proposal is that the threatened gap in undergraduate instruction be filled where necessary and within existing budgetary limitations by the creation of associate professors on permanent tenure for whom there is no vacancy calculably in sight in the full-professorial ranks. The contention that Harvard education is threatened with a serious impairment unless this policy is adopted is one which the present reviewer is wholly prepared to endorse...