Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphatic has been the necessity of sifting and sorting out the more urgent of the applications that the University has adopted the expedient policy of showing preference to Seniors who must have aid in preparation for graduation. On the other hand, the undergraduate of only fair scholastic ability who has manifested a desire to attain a college education in spite of financial handicaps is no less deserving and his position no less acute than that of the departing Senior. The wholesale drying up of outside jobs accentuates the seriousness of each individual application. Faced with the necessity of procuring funds...
...full share in such times as these. There is an obligation resting upon us is do as a body, much more this year than we did last year toward helping some of the thousands among our fellow citizens who are constantly facing privations. In making this urgent general appeal, we do not overlook the fact that some Harvard officers have already given generously, perhaps as generously as they should, this year...
Poland, by far the biggest and most potent state hewn out of the War, grew agitated last week over her Presidential election next June. Urgent is the necessity of picking a President possessing world prestige-for who knows how much longer the Fascists, Militarists and Junkers now riding high in Germany will let the Polish Corridor alone? To a British journalist Chancellor Hitler exclaimed: "The Polish Corridor must be returned...
...Orleans newspapers for days & days did not carry a line on the Union Indemnity crash after their first brief inside-page stories. When they received Washington dispatches on Congressman Fish's charges last week they killed them, ostrich-wise, at President Hecht's urgent request. Of course the news went out to newspapers in the North. Hibernia Bank & Trust, doing a nation-wide business, began to suffer heavy out-of-town withdrawals, and the news seeped through New Orleans' financial district. President Hecht wired complete refutation of the charges and Congressman Fish offered to review the facts...
There are 400,000 Spaniards resident in Cuba. Quick and hard the Spanish Government acted. In Madrid Foreign Minister Luis de Zulueta made a statement on the killing (which was barred from all Cuban newspapers) and wired urgent orders to Spain's embassy in Havana. Spanish Charge d'Affaires Rafael Forns called immediately on Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara, sniffed indignantly at the latter's suggestion that all official moves be postponed until after a Cuban "judicial investigation." Next day he delivered his Government's formal note, a message conspicuous for its lack of diplomatic...