Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Harvard performers did reasonably well. Frederick McIsaac '40 cleared 13 feet in the pole vault. Mason Fernald, out all week with a cold looked well in the hurdle semi-finals, though not graduating to the final heat...
Last year the Federal Housing Administration insured the mortgages on 300,000 building units, 60% of all constructed in the U. S. But that was no housing boom and Franklin Roosevelt wants one to help get him out of his Recession. Avowed friend of Labor though he is, he was bound to admit that one factor in deterring home building is the high labor cost, and if the laborer would take a lower daily wage he would get a higher annual wage...
...first chance to see Coriolanus since 1885. The play has never prospered in the theatre because, while it has high temperatures of rage and subnormal chills of scorn, it seldom strikes the 98.6° of ordinary human emotion. But what Broadway saw last week was a story which, though it lacks tremolo, shrills along as vibrant and masculine as a trumpet call...
...mate among women to worship as an idol. We do not approach her feeling the biological urge as we once did in the days of Clara Bow, for now beauty to us is metaphysical and intellectual. In our wisdom we know we can never find her in human form, though we need her badly. But at last we have found her, and she is the essence of perfect virtue. Her name is Snow White...
Snow White is grand, and though something dormant in us harks back to the past and arouses suppressed longings for the wicked queen, it is only natural we should remember that after all she is the queen and beautiful. We have reformed, however, and we know from experience that Snow White is the only one. We remember that the Dragon Lady captured our hearts once in spite of Burma, but after her renascence she didn't mean a hill of beans, and we're not going to let ourselves in for the same thing with Snow White...