Word: suggestiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before we leave this subject of crime we wish to suggest that the authorities leave such petty matters is murder and theft for a while and concentrate their effort on the suppression of those criminals who have something fundamentally bad about them. For murderers can eustly be cured with a few yards of hemp, but those crimes of which we speak strike far deeper into the natures of their perpetrators. Among the proscribed we should like to place; those he men who go around these zero mornings without coats: people who stay up all night before an examination; people...
...frequently known as Harvard's Who's Who has formerly appeared before the Christmas vacation, but was not published this year. H. W. Bragdon '28, A. H. O'Neil '28, and J. L. Pool '28 have been chosen to make a thorough examination of the Register, in order to suggest improvements and innovations. They will also ascertain the number of undergraduates and graduates who have been purchasing the volume...
...never heard such a name; but I see today in your answer to a letter from a Mr. Box (TIME, Dec. 20) that you have already had two stories about Snooks. I shouldn't think a Snook was much more important than a sparrow myself. I suggest the slogan : 'Not a snook falls without TIME knowing about it." AMELIA SIMPSON...
Though these last seemed appropriate names for the cubs of Sultana, Italia, Signor Benito Mussolini did not approve them. He dropped a word, instead, and suddenly some thousand Fascists wrote to suggest that his given name be divided into three syllables (Benito) and each syllable doubled to form the name of a cub. Last week it was formally announced that the offspring of Sultana Italia will be called "Bebe," 'Nini" and Toto." Within a few days two sets of human triplets at Rome and another at Ravenna were similarly christened...
Members of the University will be given an opportunity to suggest topics for discussion under the plan just adopted by the Debating Union. A bluebook has been posted in the Union wherein topics of general argumentative interest may be inscribed. It is expected thus to obviate such embarrassing situations as that of the great football debate last fall. Major Cavanaugh, then coach of Boston College, said that for him to attempt, a defense of football where the question was worded: "Resolved, That this house deplores the present over-emphasis of football" was to espouse a lost cause...