Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both camps knew that the original issue -craft v. industrial unionism-was nearly dead, that Bill Green's new issue of de mocracy v. autocracy was stillborn. The big problem remaining was how to reconcile the personal power and ambitions of a handful of potent personalities. But one thing was certain: the will for peace is stronger today in both A. F. of L. and C.I.O. than at any time in the past two years...
Despite the 39-0 victory over Bates, 34-7 win over Amherst, the 40-0 run-away over Springfield, and the 41-0 scalping of Brown, the Indians have not shown a thing in the way of deception or variety of plays...
...such a thing is of course impossible on the face of it for "too much tradition, too much background, too much of a substance that might correctly be termed practical idealism has gone into making that strong, staunch, yet friendly rivalry what it is today...
...hundred men are engaged in House football alone. Kirkland House, defending title holders of last year's championship, boats a squad which number 35 men, and close behind are the imposing squads of Eliot, Leverett, and Lowell. The important thing, however, is that every House is well represented. The reason for this is that the House secretary is directly responsible to Intramural Director Samborski to put a team on the field. An example of what these secretaries are accomplishing was evident on October 12, a holiday, when four House teams engaged in spirited practice sessions which would do credit...
...Hundred Days of the New Deal when measure after measure was whipped through the subservient Congress with spectacular war whoops, and when all business was chastened and employed as a whipping post, and when instilling the confidence and providing the stable government necessary for real recovery was the farthest thing from the President's mind. The original Securities Act, although designed ostensibly to prevent frauds and protect the public, in reality acted as a firm blockade against the receipt of the new capital so sorely needed by American business. Perhaps the crowning blow was the undistributed profits...