Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give this day all the respect it deserves, we are holding the first annual "Thayer North Ease-the-Pain Lottery for Draft-Age Youths." Each inhabitant of the first two floors of Thayer North is eligible to contribute $.50 to the pool. He who ranks highest on Uncle Sam's "Kill-a-Gook-and-Grin" list receives the entire...
...evidence presented at the trial was somewhat nebulous, the personalities involved certainly were not. The presiding judge, Webster Thayer, was a traditional Yankee with little sympathy for radicals. The Prosecutor, District Attorney Frederick G. Katzmann '96, was a cold, sharp, thin-lipped man of German descent who sought convictions with merciless persistence. And the original defense counsel, Fred Moore, was a leftist labor lawyer who sported long hair and often wore sandals to Court. Moore's appearance coupled with his constant objections to Katzmann's tactics, only strengthened Thayer's bias against the defendants...
...What if Thayer's unusual request that he be appointed to preside at the trial had been denied, especially since he had also been the presiding judge at the Plymouth trial at which Vanzetti was convicted of an earlier robbery...
Straus Hall ran away with this year's freshman intramural title, outdistancing Thayer North by 128 points...
...closing decades of the 19th century, time began to run out on the traditional faith. U.S. foreign trade doubled between 1870 and 1890. Navy Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a visionary military strategist, saw the seas as an "open plain" and urged the country "to cast aside the policy of isolation which befitted her infancy." The isolationist past was decisively rejected by Woodrow Wilson's intervention on the Allied side in World War I, but it was revived by the disillusionment that followed his crusade to make the world safe for democracy. The anti-internationalist movement reached a peak...