Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They asked him if he thought he was the whole Board. Said he: "We haven't had a divided vote in the Board. I can, therefore, reasonably be held responsible. . . . You have the right fellow here and if it has been wrong you can crucify...
Russian calendar-makers last week announced that the names of the days and months would not be changed for the present: Soviet weekdays will remain Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, then Monday again "until something better is thought of." Soviet editors and minor officials hastened to think of something better, suggested naming the days numerically, changing Monday, Tuesday, to Oneday, Twoday, or more romantically adopting such strictly Communist titles as Youthday, Womanday, Sovday (Soviet Day) Comday (Comintern...
...time that some thought be given to the ways and means of providing the college with some new recitation hall. The last five years have seen an enormous amount of money invested in physical additions to the Harvard plant. We have had a new art museum, and a new gymnasium, and new dormitory units are in process of construction. The classroom space provided in the art museum and the Mallinckrodt laboratory was purely incidental to the primary purposes of these buildings, and has done but little to relieve the general situation...
...practice of permitting the coaches to direct the play. In the case of football the problem is a little more difficult, because there is involved the question of withdrawing men who have been more or less injured in play and the substitution of others for them. This situation is thought, with a good deal of justice, to call at times for judgment more objective and intelligent than the players themselves under the excitement of the moment are always able to command. To turn the supervision of this matter over to medical officers is to invite the suspicion that they...
...that remark seemed to switch his mind to prohibition, and he murmured bitterly: "Do you know what the trouble with prohibition is" Every one in America is so busy drinking they don't give it a thought...