Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pundit Dorothy Thompson (Mrs. Sinclair Lewis), whose first husband was Budapester Josef Bard, wrote last week of the Austrian situation: "Yesterday it looked as though the struggle was over, and the new peace dictated. Today it is still an armistice. Tomorrow...
...Though in the past 46 years some $20,000,000 has been spent on Manhattan's great Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine, world's largest cathedral (in cubic capacity), neither its exterior nor interior has been completed. Astute Bishop William Thomas Manning, not loath to identify the cathedral with New York's forthcoming World's Fair, has launched a campaign to raise $1,000,000 to finish the interior so that Fairgoers may worship there. At present, services are held not in the finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection...
...true, there have been exceptions to this rule. On the whole, however, the mode of presentation tends to be strenuously academic, at times almost ceremonial. One has the feeling as though some of the undergraduate authors were overpowered by their own sense of scientific responsibility: their method is cautiously conservative, their style weighted by terminology. Perhaps there is stage fright behind such mimicry. Whatever the cause, its effects are not conducive to first-rate journalism. Here is a wide realm for editorial guidance...
According to Dr. Beteta, "the Mexican people are taking possession of their Fatherland." Similar phrases are being marketed, though perhaps in a different sense, in Europe's bourgeois dictatorships. The motives for the manipulation of political symbols and the methods of opinion management in contemporary Italy and Germany are reconsidered by Mr. Harold F. Porter, Jr., in a contribution entitled "Propaganda in the Fascist State...
According to past performances of Navy swimmers this year, there will be little real competition for the Crimson. The dive tonight, though, will be another question. Midshipman Gibson, beaten only by Cranston, of Princeton, this year, and holder of the season's high point total of 117.03 for high-board, will surely furnish Rusty Greenhood a thrilling match...