Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a letter to Hanfstaengl on September 24, 1934, the President said, "The Corporation are unwilling to accept a gift from one who has been so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage on the universities of Germany through measures which have struck at...
Notes between the notes: The new Count Basic of "Miss Thing" was made under some unusual conditions. Late one night after a recording session at the Brunswick studio, some of the big-wigs in the studio asked the Count to play the "Miss" which he had just written a few...
Sargent claimed the large number of Prep school tutees was due largely to personal wealth. "A great many have no interest in getting a college education but go through the four years just to please their parents, who regard college in the same light as a finishing school," he says...
At the same time he proposed a remedy for the whole tutoring school situation, which would come through reformation within the University itself.
Reason for the detour: In forced landings in Germany on the Vienna-London run, Jewish passengers with through tickets were taken up by the Gestapo and disappeared. Presumably they wound up in concentration camps.