Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shepard described the situation of the Forest in a statement as follows...
...Every man has his ghost" is a slight over statement, but it still suggests a condition that exists in most colleges today and harasses the instructors who are correcting prepared essays. Ghost writing of all degrees, varying from outside assistance merely in organizing a paper all the way to the composition of a finished product with notes and all, done independently of the student, still prevails to a certain extend at Harvard, despite all efforts to blot it out. As long as it continues to exist, neither the long theses nor the short essays prepared outside of class will achieve...
Down across the Wisconsin-Illinois border last week the spunky little Madison Capital Times (circulation: 28,000) shouted a remarkable challenge to the Goliath-like Chicago Tribune (circulation 900,000). The challenge: Let Tribuneman Chesly Manly prove the truth of a certain statement in one of his recent dispatches from Washington, and the Capital Times would immediately pay $1,000 to any charity the Tribune might name. The statement in question: "La Follette's so-called [Civil Liberties Committee] inquiry was conceived by John L. Lewis, dictator of the C. I. O. and political ally of Mr. Roosevelt...
...broadcast was begun with an announcement that a dramatization was taking place and was concluded by Mr. Welles's statement that it was "the Mercury Theatre's own version of dressing up in a sheet . . . and saying Boo!" But the story had been so realistically transplanted from Britain to the U. S., from the 19th to the 20th Century, that almost any listener who came in on a fragment might be pardoned for a momentary pricking up of the ears...
...This statement was omitted from the printed copies of the speech distributed after the rally...