Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more dangerous than any emanating from overseas, for the very reason that it is accepted as the gospel truth by many more people. The lofty positions of these men give their words weight beyond their worth, so that they should give long and serious thought to the subject before making any statement. It is especially disquieting that leaders of youth, the college presidents, should have spoken so soon and so openly the words that may send to destruction the lives in their charge. They are earning an unenviable place in the road gang that is trying to build...
...over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high of 487,000 pieces on Sept...
...subject, How Can We Defend Democracy in America Now? and the debaters (Harold Ickes and Hugh Johnson) developed an odd sort of sparring match, with both Administration-Baiter Johnson and New-Dealer Ickes poking at the solar plexus of the Administration's war policy-its Morgan-du Pont loaded War Resources Board (soon to be disbanded). What they finally shook hands on was that the U. S. should stay out of war; what they were still making faces over at the finish was how. Sample audience heckling...
Athletics at college have always been a touchy subject. It has been very easy to make accusations of professionalism but much harder to ward off the charges. The new Inter-University Committee on Eligibility, consisting of one faculty member each from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, must aid in removing the slightest trace of impurity that might be thought to exist. Nevertheless it is unfortunate that it should be considered necessary to place responsibility for athletics with academic authorities...
...remainder of the Big Green backfield is subject to change. Don Norton and Sandy Courter are still battling for varsity quarterback. Both are really too light for college football and neither has had much experience...