Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year program of "education." Four years ago a similar campaign on a smaller scale was instituted, no report made on its success or cost. Delegates speculated on whence the money would come. Dr. Cherrington said he had no large donors in mind, added: "We'll get it somehow. In God we trust...
...Somehow, distance lends an educational enchantment to institutions. There seems to be difficulty in making Americans admit that the height of scholarship can be reached at home. Thirty or forty years ago, the home of the more important muses was generally considered to be in Germany. Today, the scene has changed, but it is still on the other side of the Atlantic. Instead of the Heidelberg scar, one must now have the Oxford accent. At present English influence on our educational methods is almost as potent as the German once was. We notice the trend, very obvious despite the modifications...
...heavy burden of $12.00 a week would have added only $600 a year to Harvard's budget; somehow perhaps a sympathetic administration might have found some way to manage it, especially when one considers that $600 represents the income on only $10,000 and Harvard just received $5,000,000 with no strings attached. One is led to believe that the University administration was not particularly anxious to raise the money for when the Locker Building burned a few nights ago several hundred thousand dollars were raised within forty-eight hours to replace it. Harvard, as we know, exists almost...
...long advocated a revision of the Border laws with an increase in the size of the patrol. But all these recommendations, though necessary as parallel measures of reform, fail to strike to the heart of the problem, and serve only to strengthen the impression that the Commission has somehow evaded the issue...
Last week also Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Eielson's close friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging...