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Word: ve (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barnard, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve followed up President Nicholas Murray Butler's diatribe on youthful manners (TIME, Oct. 8) with these remarks to freshmen: "Perhaps the manners of girls may be better than boys, from what I've heard said about them. Nevertheless there is room for improvement. Don't grab plates of cake at a tea, as I've seen college girls do. Don't elbow your way into an elevator. It may be exhilaration or mob psychology that makes you behave in such a way, but whatever it is you girls must remember that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: At the Universities | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...take this fall track stuff too seriously. After you've been here a while (like me) you'll get onto the ropes. Ever done any track before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/11/1934 | See Source »

...when President Roosevelt invited him up to Hyde Park the third day he was home. Last week, when his onetime lieutenant resigned from NRA, Wall Street was offering even money that Hugh Johnson's boss would be Hugh Johnson's successor. Recalled was this Baruchism: "I've been like a good athlete who is always ready and always in training. And then some God-damned fool drops the ball and . . . they say, 'Baruch's a good fellow. Give him the ball.' " So many people believed that Baruch was about to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Baruch Back | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension. Then comes Drought. Gloomily John is about to go off with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...Colgate's George Barton Cutten: Will it be rugged individualism or ragged collectivism? . . . We've taken better care of the idiot than we have of the genius. We have coddled the moron and starved the intelligent. Those with the divine spark we have neglected, while we've lavished money and training upon the pinheads. . . . Social legislation begs the unfit to become more unfit and cordially invites the fit to stop the struggle and vegetate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Openers | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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