Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bullet in his groin, eluding a gamekeeper, dismist Luke's offer of assistance scornfully, and died unlacing his boots. Luke's mother, at the beginning of the story threatens to strike the bum-bailiff who has come to eject them from their home and tells him he can thank his damn stars it is the Book of God she is carrying...
...thank you for anything you may do to correct this omission...
While I wish to thank the CRIMSON for their very kind remarks about the Student Conference on Careers in Government in yesterday's editorial, it would be unfair not to mention the two "aides" who were most responsible for the "clockwork" which you praised. The conference would not have been so successful without the constant and persistent work of Bruce Bliven, Jr., and Ely. J. Kahn, Jr., who devoted two entire days to making arrangements, taking registration, and, on Saturday, keeping just one jump ahead of the conference. It is to them that most praise is due. Raymond Dennett...
...frail, goateed President William Preston Few, who can thank "Buck" Duke for blowing up his tiny Trinity College into big Duke University. Snapped grateful President Few: "The glory of this university is that it is built in accordance with carefully made plans. These, in all essentials, are apt to be followed to the end. I have a profound appreciation of what Mr. Duke has striven to do for Education and Humanity, and I would do honor to his good deeds in any way, however conspicuous...
...Thank God for the National Student League. If it hadn't been for them, Harvard might have let the incident pass, and thanked the German government for the gesture of friendliness and recognition arising from the university's recognition of its German heroes. Harvard might have taken the gesture at its face value, and in its innocent and unsuspicious heart been grateful...