Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay in. When Mr. Lowell took office the presidents of Western State universities were saying, "At least, our students are not loafers. At least, if a student comes to us the presumption is that he has come because he wishes to learn. But you privately endowed Eastern universities have sunk to the level of harboring the idle sons of the leisure classes." In the Harvard of today they may or may not be the sons of the leisure classes, but one thing is certain, they are not idle: not if they stay. And meanwhile, after the lapse of two decades...
...more much-needed vote to his California total. Two million good Republican dollars had been poured into what looked like a fruitless campaign. Wall Street, Eastern Industry and Society were earnestly, almost desperately for the President-but they did not seem enough to blast loose the rock of discontent sunk deep in the electorate at large. The last week of the Republican campaign was much like the first-only hotter. Every member of the Cabinet except Attorney General Mitchell (a nominal Democrat) had done his bit and more for the President. At Dayton Secretary of State Stimson proclaimed President Hoover...
...renovated, and the new policy affords' a meal ticket. The future of Lampy was predictable when that magazine first was mailed "wrapped in a plain cover", and the CRIMSON congratulates its old friend for submitting so gracefully to the slings of fortune; though the Lampoon has thus half sunk from its former estate, there will be no love lost because of it. There is all half to that noble company of Heliogabalus, Alice Foote MacDougall, and the Harvard Lampoon...
...fact, the depression finds us sunk into a deeper hole than a while ago because of the psychological condition that is apparently the result of economic intimidation. The failure of disarmament conferences, the misbehavior of Japan, political unrest in the European 'powder-box,' and high tariff walls, all add to the uncertainty of our economic life. It is evident that fear has exaggerated the importance of these conditions, but they must be reckoned with, one at a time, before we shall be able to straighten the entanglements of international economics...
...presidential campaign so severely tested the talent and originality of political cartoonists as the contest between Herbert Clark Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Even the best of the craft have had a hard time getting its essence down in black & white, while those below the best have sunk to new depths of routine caricature...