Word: various
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others will seek to discover the effect of the President's veto of the bill on his political chances, and question of how various influences played on Congressmen voting for the bill. A fifth inquiry will ask for an estimate of the veto procedure as illustrated by the Congressional-Executive battle over...
There is little doubt now about the provocation. The Crimson oarsmen rowed the Seattle course in the fastest time ever recorded for the 2000-meter distance. Time, incidentally, is usually an unreliable factor in judging the worth of various crews; but such is the case when weather, tide, and current conditions can slow down or speed up the best or worst of crews. Last Saturday the Varsity won without benefit of tail-current, most often present when records are made, and nevertheless cracked the Yale time on the Schuykill River...
...things in medicine seemed as new and fashionable as nerve-cutting operations. All over the U.S., surgeons were cutting nerves in various parts of the body in the hope of relieving ulcers, hand sweating, high blood pressure, hiccups, drug addiction, schizophrenia. One hospital last week was booked solid for the next nine months with appointments for lobotomies (cutting nerves in the brain). There were similar waiting lists elsewhere, and many doctors were getting nervous about the whole subject. They asked: Has the nerve-cutting fad already gone too far; will people who are now getting their nerves cut some...
Come Regatta Day--as last week, swarms of Crimson well-wishers have to be fought off by gatemen. Only parents of the crew and various official personages are admitted. Occasionally, however, the solitude of the Boathouse was broken early last Wednesday afternoon by the arrival of dinghies from the yachts off shore, looking for more beer...
...Morrison's belief that Christianity is responsible for the character of civilization also prompted him to apply Christian principles to the whole area of current events. The Century, at various times, campaigned for the League of Nations, for prohibition, for NRA, for the rights of labor. Sometimes it campaigned itself into positions that many readers thought untenable (e.g., attempting to be both crusading and pacifist in support of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Century naively hoped that a pact to "outlaw" war could, in fact, outlaw it). But the Century's alertness, firmly backed by the principles...