Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardlings will try to win their second straight game tonight when they meet the untried Husky Freshmen in a preliminary game at 7:30 o'clock. The Stahleymen repulsed the Tech first-year men Tuesday night...
These words, from the reliable typewriter of William Henry Chamberlin, Christian Science Monitor Paris correspondent, have given the Vagabond pause. With other students, he has tried to believe that this war is a moral crusade, to be followed by the construction of a better Europe--if the Allies win. He has tried, in spite of his logic, his common sense, and his knowledge of history. But the facts, and especially this early dispatch from Paris, have proved disillusioning...
Again I say isn't there some little old kid game Harvard could learn to play at and win...
...white teeth" when he laughed). On the bitter subject of conscription, North and South, Sandburg gives the fruit of original research. Nothing in the narrative, however, stands out with such power for readers in 1939 as the deep tenacity of Lincoln's efforts: first (vainly) to win the South to gradual, compensated emancipation; then to forestall class and sectional savagery, to maintain representative government in the torn border States (sometimes he seems to have done so by an act of will), to build, even as the war went on, a foundation for "a just and lasting peace...
...seems important to know who will rule us after we win this difficult war. Re articles in the Read Digest Dec. '39 p. 5, N.Y. Times June '30 F 9, N. Y. Post June 8 '34 N. Y. Sun Nov. 18 '33 edit'l pp. crities, incld'g lekes, Elmer Davis, U. S. Senator Fletcher seem to say that the plutocracy aided when necessary by an allied Proletariat machine rules completely in what Stuart Thomson (W.W. in East: N.).: U.S.A.: Authors: Canada: Interna'l London) calls "censorship by exclusion: autocracy by preemption" in publicity and opportunity in his effort...