Word: straws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of all, asserts Porter Sargent, Britain's campaign had failed to shake U. S. pacifism until Russia last month attacked Finland. Says he: "What an opportunity for propagandists to inflame idealistic emotions! The last straw to bring...
...reason for these mental illnesses, the greatest danger lies in the lure of fake remedies; for the sick man is an all-too-easy victim of the first best quack who happens to cross--and bar--his way; he believes in miracles as the drowning man believes in his straw. Harvard has its quack doctors in plenty, its tutoring schools perched along Massachusetts Avenue. Sick people flock in, sick people flock out. Liberal education at its best...
When he arrived home last week, Nubby cocked a sleepy eye at his father's new-grown, straw-colored mustache and said: "That's got to come off." Next morning Nubby, Betty Jane and mother rigged a barber chair, forced the Ambassador into it, and hacked the thing off themselves-occasionally bringing the U. S. Ambassador closer to death than Japanese bombs ever have...
...days (one day for each victory). President & faculty also began to talk darkly of redeeming Reed's scholastic reputation by paying football players not to come to Reed. In his annual report to the trustees, President Keezer grumped: "I would be happier if football were abandoned entirely." Last straw was an attempt to arrange a "Brain Bowl" game between Reed and oft-trounced University of Chicago. President Keezer put a stop to that...
...embassy at Washington. The name of Potocki took on a new meaning, not just spokesman for Poland, but the leader, the unifying strength of thousands of Poles in America who listened eagerly to his every message of hope. On September 19th, as Warsaw held out for the last straw of independence, Potocki was already looking to the future: "If the enemy shall succeed in Poland, the time will come, as it has so often in the history of our country, that Poland will rise again...