Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dwell at length on the well-worn, familiar facts of Harvard history, but instead introduced comparatively new material. Thus, we learn that in the days when term-bills were paid in produce, one scholar was credited with an animal's "suet innards" and another with a "piece of stuff...
Bleak days, my fingers stiff in thin cold pigskin gloves, the wind whipping my trouserlegs, numbing my feet so that it hurts to step on them. Such stuff as colds are made...
...scholarships of one undergraduate and two graduate students for distributing circulars urging freshmen not to join the University's voluntary Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit. In most schools benefiting by public land grants under the Morrill Act of 1862, R.O.T.C training for underclassmen is compulsory. Old stuff to most educators are the perennial kicks against it by boys who think either that fighting is wrong or drilling is a bore (TIME, April 6 et ante). New stuff, however, was the action Oregon's adults took last week to end the particularly loud squawks against R.O.T.C. which students...
...announced in London: "I have just come from America, where I saw Roosevelt. Make no mistake, he is a force-a man of superior and impenetrable mind, but perfectly ruthless, a highly versatile mind which you cannot foresee. He has the most amazing power complex, the Mussolini substance, the stuff of a dictator absolutely...
...careful study before they can be understood. Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping the joker. The cards of little value are the routine stuff of fiction-descriptions, analysis of motives, local color-and the joker is the key that gives meaning to them...