Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Harry Hopkins one day last week after a Cabinet meeting which, though no member, he had attended as usual by Presidential request. When Reorganization failed last spring with it died Harry Hopkins' dream of becoming the first Secretary of Welfare. Now, for weeks, Washington wiseacres had been saying Secretary Roper of Commerce would be let out to make room for Friend Hopkins, with twofold purpose: to take him out of the Congressional barrage soon to fall upon his WPA; to throw him into contact with businessmen and build him up as 1940 Presidential timber...
Dunster is on top of League "B" with four wins and one loss, though Lowell leads in number of victories with 12 wins against five losses...
...Though America is still far from clicking, retiring President Charles R. Hook felt justified in remarking: "I believe in all sincerity that our activities during the past year have brought industry and the Government substantially closer to mutual understanding, respect and cooperation...
Macy's publicity reads as though he were selling some rare, internationally compounded medicine instead of reprinted classics. Printed all over the world, Limited Editions books include such native volumes as The Psalms of David, being printed in Palestine, Oedipus Rex, being printed in Greece. The Analects of Confucius, printed in Shanghai, reads from back to front, is boxed in carved Chinese redwood. In France, "the owner of a paper mill seeks 100,000 chemises (and diapers, and castoff socks)" in order to make a paper which will "give you delight in its appearance and in its feel...
Undoubtedly the worst feature of the present infirmary, however, is the startling fact that it does not contain observation wards. If no private rooms are available, students with undiagnosed ailments are put into a ward until their illness is diagnosed, and thus it is possible, though there are no traceable cases to date, to contract a complicating disease while trying to cure the original illness. On some occasions it is conceivable that a variety of contagious diseases might be found in one "observation" ward. On the basis of these and other facts, it seems that stillman needs such a thorough...