Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With six copies of the petition still circulating and untabulated, over one hundred and fifty students are known to have endorsed the demand for a "formal declaration of policy" of the University...
Everything is quiet and hot. Figures across the street are walking leisurely. The leaves are still. There's no ripple on the grass. The sun is hot on the pavement. Men are wearing white shirts. It's summer! Vag eaunters across the Yard admiring the seasonal phenomenon, the gregness, the aims,--even Sever Hall. He walks slowly. There's no rush, no appointments, no assignments, not for three and a half months. He lights a cigarette, lets the smoke curl out of his mouth and hang in mid air motionless. No sir, no one could get him to walk fast...
...Full dress suits, in color, minus collar & tie. Better still, an adaptation of the bullfighter's cock-o'-the-walk costume...
...about 40% of what it is. But if Baldwin stockholders can count on Midvale to keep their company from bogging down in depression, they cannot count on Midvale to do more than help Baldwin break even on its huge capacities (as it is barely doing now). Prosperity for Baldwin still depends on when U. S. railroad buying will come back...
English youngsters still burst their Eton jackets giggling at Lear's Book of Nonsense. The U. S. breed find Lear's nonsense nonsensical. But Lear is essentially grownups' Mother Goose. Limericks like the Young Girl of Majorca still wow big-wigged British judges...