Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Your sister publication, LIFE (Sept. 25) reports that 83% of the American people want the Allies to win the war, while 1% want a German victory. I belong with that 1% so please let me have...
...talking with the survivors afterward when a little girl-ten or eleven-ran up. Some one had told her that her sister was in the field. Her sister was one of the dead. We helped her find the body...
...never in my life had such a naturally dramatic scene to take. The child bent down over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...
News has come up from New Haven that some of Yale's prettiest dreams about her sister university, Harvard, have been rudely shattered. The Yale Daily News bewails the passage of our laissez-faire educational tradition with the coming of faculty scrutiny of History 1 notes. To our emancipated brethren of Yale, this seems a cross between the Inquisition and academic hand-holding. In view of the facts of the case, this comment is hardly just...
...sister university Harvard has always enjoyed the reputation of being an institution where a gentleman could acquire an education in a gentlemanly manner. At Harvard, so the generalization runs, there is no attempt at prep-schoolish supervision of students... Suddenly this happy picture is rudely shattered for us by an announcement by the Harvard History Department that henceforth students in History 1, a large survey course, will have their lecture and reading notes subjected to periodic scrutiny...