Word: springing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that time the Teachers' Union charged that the Administration had violated the "spirit and the letter" of the newly adopted tenure system, a charge reiterated by PBK. The new Faculty rank system was adopted in principle by the Administration last Spring on the recommendation of the Committee of Eight...
...first time since the spring of 1937, when the abortive Supreme Court Reorganization plan was being debated, the President of Harvard has expressed his views on a national issue. And he has expressed them in unequivocal words: "I am personally strongly in favor of a modification of the law so as to permit the sale of implements of war to France and England...
...country. For years his neighbors had heard him talk about going back. There were no jobs for his two strapping boys in Watertown, Wis., and Herr Hitler's own agent in Milwaukee had told him about the glorious opportunities in the new Nazi Fatherland. One fine day last spring, with 150 other Wisconsin families, the Loefflers picked up and went. The Fatherland paid all the passage money, every pfennig...
...this failed to disturb Pitt's standpat trustees (including the late Andrew W. Mellon, Steelman Ernest Tener Weir*, Food-man Howard Heinz, Westinghouse Chair man Andrew Wells Robertson). But last spring the trustees were disturbed indeed when Football Coach John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland quit. Apparent reason for his resignation was a decision by Chancellor Bowman to purify Pitt athletics, but insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John...
Last week The Lion's art was stacked up for posterity when Milton Gabler's Commodore Music Shop produced a Willie Smith album of seven discs recording 14 of his solos. Besides his own Echo of Spring, Morning Air, Fading Star, The Lion plays six numbers written by others. Two of these represent him at his very best and worst. On Tea for Two the briskness and sprightliness, as they must occasionally to all improvising pianists, get way out of hand. His sincerest admirers will play oftener the solider, more artfully imaginative passages...