Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fumbled with his black tie. This was always the hardest part of it--this and getting used to the bite of the collar button as it dug into his throat. But he didn't really mind too much. The thing had to be done, and it was only once in three years. He looked over the letter lying on his desk. "Dear Vag: Will you give the Associates and Tutors and pleasure of your company at the head table at the October House Dinner.... We usually wear dinner coats, but that is by no means essential...
...thing is certain--having a girl up to a game involves a large expenditure of a student's hard-earned allowance, and frequently creates apparently insoluble problems of budget-balancing after the dream girl has gone home again. But one undergraduate, foreseeing late-October bankruptcy, has utilized a plan of financing the weekend which combines the blind devotion of the days of chivalry with the materialism of this streamlined...
...German Dictator, after talking with Dr. Chvalkovsky and later with Dr. Daranyi, said to them privately that Hungary can get only the same sort of thing as Germany got in the Sudetenland and no more, that is only predominantly Hungarian areas, which would not give Hungary and Poland a common frontier...
...Salt Lake City, Professor Thomas C. Adams of the University of Utah announced, after tests with Boy Scouts, that the best thing to toss to a person drowning in Great Salt Lake is a 15-lb. anchor...
...year 1922 was a big year for modern literature. In that year appeared T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, Joyce's Ulysses, Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, the first (English-translated) volume of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. The other literary landmark of that year was a startling encyclopedia, edited by Harold Stearns, called Civilization in the United States, the collective work of some 30 outspoken "young intellectuals," including such names as H.L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford. The startling thing about the book was the contributors' pessimism. While the press, economists and politicians glorified...