Word: ve
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greenbelt is the first of four such projects which Administrator Tugwell has launched throughout the land.* Cried the President to some of its 4,000 WPA builders: I've often seen the blueprints of Greenbelt. The actual sight far exceeds anything I ever dreamed of. I wish everyone in the country could see it. It is good to get people out in the country. It is an experiment that ought to be copied in every community in the United States...
...hasten to write on this delicate subject because I've been told there's some change in University Hall's policy regarding the entertainment of lady guests in students' rooms. The handling of the problem here--though not quite analogous--may be of some use. In general the regulations are stricter. Men may not ride alone with a girl in a car. In fact owners of cars can't take them out before noon and must have them in before eleven. But surprising as it may seem, gentlemen may entertain girls in their rooms from one in the afternoon until...
...young Englishman asked me if our Fourth of July was a celebration over some disappointment in someone failing to blow something or other. He was just as serious as was the ignorance of Rhodes when he gave thirteen scholarships meaning one for every state in our Union. I've been disappointed not only in what I thought was a superior English intelligence but also in their accent. So far as I can make out Harvard is the best place for the Oxford accent...
...They've got to leave that brain outside...
...they've a brain and cerebolium...