Word: storms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard has a way of emerging stronger from every storm. It was never as strong as it is today, although the long list of its recent major achievements, ranging all the way from the establishment of the general examination and the tutorial system to the application of a rational plan of budgeting, would not make nearly as lively reading for the uninformed and the half-informed as a news story headed "Grads Rap Harvard for Baker Loss." If the alumni will ony look into the facts before throwing brickbats, if they will only make their proposals logical, good-humored...
After two more days of storm and stress it was agreed to refer the U. S. plan to a committee of eight (suggested by Finland's representative), composed of the U. S., Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Finland, Italy, Persia, Poland...
...capable halma players is William, Griffith. His note is small, facile; it has the grace of not taking its grace too seriously. Of Pierrot the poet he sings, and of Pierrette who is beauty; their loves and losses, songs, sighs, their tears that fall like spangles in a snow storm by Debussy...
...great storm arose. Heaven tipped crazily, the long seas towered and swept by. Huddled below decks, the faculty of Novorossiisk University and their families cried out prayers as they were dashed back and forth across the saloon. Ashore there was a famine; here were rocks ahead and stark fear on the faces of the crew...
...improbable theory that the Kingdom of Heaven can be taken by storm...