Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have at times felt that your approach on some subjects was perhaps a little facetious, but I must grant that you know your business better than I do, and perhaps sometime you will get your own conviction on this subject. That is more important than having me tell you "where to get off.". . . RUSSELL E. SARD...
...Peace. Without referring to the Panay incident by name, he said: "I am thankful that I can tell you that our nation is at peace. It has been kept at peace despite provocations which, in other days, because of their seriousness, could well have engendered...
...which was soon chugging back the 180 miles to San Pedro with the Aafje in tow. The message also brought out a cutter with Special Agent W. H. Osborne of the Department of Justice on board. For the story the, six half-starved survivors of the Aafje had to tell involved, if not the piracy Jean Dee Jarnette had dreamed of, an example of the grave Federal crime of murder...
Unlike any other man's college in the U. S., Harvard has no organized social life. It has no Carnival like Dartmouth, no House-Party Week-end like Princeton. The average crop-haired Harvard youth will probably tell you with great condescension that this is due to Harvard's vast indifference to such carryings-on. Don't believe it. The reason for Harvard's unique social existence is that it lies but eight minutes by subway from Boston, a city with a notable absence of night-club life, a notable presence of society life. From October to June a stream...
...through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance at the rear-view mirror to see if a cop is overtaking them. There are few books that can tell them much about the country they travel. The last official U. S. Baedeker appeared in 1909. Written for European tourists, it contained such useful information as that carrying firearms was no longer necessary in the U. S., travel now being "as safe as in the most civilized parts of Europe...