Word: ters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strapping Christian undergraduates, some carrying rubber blackjacks, loitered in truculent groups, early one morning last week, before the lavish baroque facade of the University at Budapest. When Jewish students began to arrive, swinging off bright yellow trams in the Egyetem-ter (University Square), their Christian classmates menaced them with commands to "Go home!", hurled ribald taunts & insults...
Other speakers tried to add to Mayor Thompson's testimony about the flood. They were there, as he had shouted, "to crystallize sentiment." But Chairman Reid's "hearing" resolved itself into little more than roos-ter-boostering for Mayor Thompson...
...people who conquered the native blacks at the time of the Dutch Discovery in the 17th Century, are now the cheap labor class. They are the burden which the white man has been too weak to carry but not too weak to destroy. At the heart of the mat- ter Author Millin feels that: "The black man is not so different from, as he is inferior to, the white man." For him, she tacitly observes, there is no hope...
Since the death twenty one years ago of John Lovett, "The Orange Man," whose greeting to Freshmen, "I knew your father, friend," and whose translation of Veritas as "Ter hell wid Yale," have made him immortal, Harvard has never had another mascot of such rare interest and popularity...
...report of the committee of the Imperial Conference on in ter-imperial relations is a masterpiece of evasion. It has recom mended the elimination of five words and the insertion of one comma in the royal title (TIME, Nov. 29), and it advises a few changes of formalities and formulae. But it has avoided with the greatest skill every real problem that arises...