Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mclntyre until three weeks later, having industriously backed Mr. Roosevelt into a corner, he received word from Mclntyre that the President would really come. Voit Gilmore then had to rush around raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook." At last, this week, came the great day. Voit Gilmore rode over from Chapel Hill to the railroad station at Sanford, N. C. with Governor Hoey to receive the President of the United States...
Phenomena. "Dull but important" is Senator O'Mahoney's apologetic phrase for the Investigation. He hoped to make witnesses, however big of wig, feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...
Coinciding with the opening of the eighth International Conference of American States, the first issue of "the Quarterly Journal of International Relations" makes its appearance. Though not officially connected with Harvard, it is a step-child of the "Harvard Guardian," its editors have all studied here, and the leading article is written by Clarence H. Haring '07, Robert, Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics...
...Though not a Communist, Odets believes in "some kind of Socialism." As a playwright he has dealt less with the problems of the worker than with the "evils" of the middle class. "An artist cannot be for a middle-class civilization. If he is to write creatively," Odets asserts, "he must be what Andre Malraux calls a man of the opposition: he must cry: Down with the general fraud...
...them a sergeant in the Swedish Navy. Last week each of the 72 received from the Swedish Embassy a gold pin emblazoned with the royal coat of arms, and several telephoned the local consulate to make sure of their new rank. The consul replied that Bertil, though grateful, had a sense of humor: even the Swedish Navy has no sergeants...