Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard draws all kinds from all places. Look around the Union and you'll see them; recognize them by their clothes, their hair-cuts, the way they use their hands. Brilliant scholars, lots of these, every fourth man the head of his secondary school class. Athletes, six-foot-one, one hundred eighty, in by the skin of their teeth. Hell-raisers who already know every bar that stays open after hours. High-school boys in dark serge; and prep-school boys wearing tweeds and plaids with the proper air. Social registerites. Dilletantes. Radicals...
...Remedial Reading course, the eyes of the spectator are forced through the use of movies to follow the movements that a skillful reader's eyes would follow. The movie shows successive phrases flashed rapidly across and down the screen in such a way that the reader's eyes are involuntarily attracted to each group of words as it appears. Thus the student learns to read by phrases rather than single words...
...that saved Emmy's life for the scaffold-she had heard him ask permission to operate, just to keep his hand in. Emmy does not know that when the doctor was a boy he had treasured a photograph of her. When he tells her this, in his cold way, she has a moment of wild hope that he may save her, soon feels like a romantic fool as he goes on to give her a political lecture...
Stressing the billiard facilities and the use of the lounges in the club building, the glib-tongued super-salesman was on his way to a small fortune when he unwittingly approached two Seniors with his nefarious proposition, and was soundly squelched...
...primary attitude of the college generation of today is, in a way, altered from that of its 1914 predecessor. So Mr. MacLeish tells us. We do not look upon this conflagration as a "sea at the end of time." Rather we look upon it as the prelude to a renewed and vigorous attack on the many problems of advancing civilization. From our point of view, this is a war to continue civilization. It becomes of the utmost necessity, thus, that once the war is over, we have many well-educated men in a position to help in building...