Word: sures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Forum in the Yard where members of the Classics Department may mount the rostrum and shout about "The Glory that was Greece" to the intellectual proletariat. The can only sit at their desks and hope that some students will be willing to gamble three courses on a pretty sure bet,--but three courses in a crowded schedule is a big ante. A great many men would rather lower the ante and take a smaller return...
...realize I am sure that throughout the world hundreds of millions of human beings are living today in constant fear of a new war or even a series of wars...
...When Thomas R. Amlie, the ex-Representative from Wisconsin whom Mr. Roosevelt appointed to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Feb. 6, et seq.), asked him to withdraw his name from consideration by the Senate in the face of opposition sure to deny confirmation, the President reluctantly did so, slapped "name-callers" who had painted Amlie...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...
...council does not know the facts and apparently has made little effort to seek them out. Example: They say, "At present it costs the H.A.A. close to $10,000 to support intercollegiate tennis and squash squads. . . ." This is, although I am sure not deliberately, a definite misstatement of fact. The facts are: (a) The $10,000 includes all coaches' salaries as well as intercollegiate expenses. (b) Over half the members of the squads play House squash and tennis. Please charge $5000 to the Houses. (c) To retain the coaches and eliminate intercollegiate events would save not more than...