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...will wager a small hogshead of Wisconsin cheese that Joe McCarthy's efforts to get that Army dentist to open a little wider please have drawn wails of pain from half the bleeding hearts in the country. Is the U.S. Army a sacred institution, that it feels it has the right to conceal a bad administrative decision from inquiry by the legislature? In giving the Army a lesson in the Constitutional facts of life, Senator McCarthy is a better democrat than his critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...situation meets with the majority of alumni approval--or it doesn't. Why not find out? And why not send a copy of your full page discussion of the Boston Post to the Daily Worker in New York asking for their views? I'll wager a one year's subscription to the American Mercury Magazine for the CRIMSON Editorial Board that the Daily Worker will approve of your stand. Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 Elm Street, Concord, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 11/6/1953 | See Source »

Well, Mike said that he liked "Teddy's Imp," but that I should back "Musical Lady" to place, because the odds were better for a small wager. Casey just looked at the animals, then smiled...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Improving the Bookies | 4/25/1953 | See Source »

...room on the first level of Lamont is a collection of past examinations containing, many hope, a clue to future questions. Anxious students scan these paper-bound volumes looking for some trend or favorite topic on which they can wager the tag-end of their study time. Even those who enter examinations well prepared find solace in studying professors' past performances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Posting Examinations | 4/23/1953 | See Source »

Invitation to Wander. There, while she rocked back & forth in her chair with her little dog Lolo in her lap, Gertrude Stein talked and talked. She talked, among other things, about America. As Wilder listened, all his lessons-the digging at Rome, Wager's "Every great work was written this morning"-fell into place. Gertrude Stein made a distinction between human nature and the human mind. Human nature, she said, clings to identity, to location in time and place. The human mind has no identity; it gazes at pure existing and pure creating, and "it knows what it knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: An Obliging Man | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

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