Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Possum" is a nickname given to Anglophile T. S. Eliot† by Anglophobe Ezra Pound. Source of the nickname was an old compact by which Poet Pound undertook to attack British literary lethargy from afar (i.e., Rapallo, Italy), while Poet Eliot played possum in the enemy camp. Lying low in a high place, Eliot never included in his published works various light verses about cats which his friends and a few children received from time to time, typewritten and unsigned. The present collection marks, among other things, Eliot's first public acknowledgment of possumhood...
...responsibility. The movement within a week of whole masses of people into thousands of other peoples' homes and schools and churches, Prime Minister Chamberlain described as "the greatest social experiment which England has ever undertaken." On the whole, it was Britain's 15,000,000 women who undertook...
...phenomenon of World War II (which he painstakingly refused to call a World War), an evidence of its great impact upon the U. S. It was also the end of his protective pretense that Charles Lindbergh is just a private citizen. By his act last week Hero Lindbergh deliberately undertook a spokesman's, if not a leader's, responsibility...
...editor of the Minneapolis Tribune before he began to build his new kind of college, which he calls "The University of Tomorrow." Believing that college courses had become too specialized for most students, he taught his misfits such broad subjects as biography, "euthenics" (problems of the home). He also undertook to find out all he could about his students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status was not enough; he had to know their future problems. To find out what they would need to know after college...
...eyes of Europe are naturally upon General Gamelin, and last week they followed him to the south of France. To the east the Italians were holding their greatest peacetime maneuvers, an exercise calculated to show what they would do if General Gamelin ever undertook to do what Napoleon did in 1796, strike through the Maritime Alpine passes and sweep across the Po Valley...