Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Debating seems to be growing rapidly in popularity and the Debating Council holds try-outs for regularly scheduled Yardling word-battles with other colleges. In the field of dramatics, the Dramatic Club recently had a stormy year, including a number of mix-ups with women's colleges, with whom they were trying to put on shows. The final blow was when the Hygiene Building began to take over the Dramatic Club's home, known as "Big Tree," in the building. Thus there is never a dull moment for the actors...
...Nazi Germany, God's Word has been tampered with by Protestant scholars on a scale unequaled since the heresies of early Christianity. This fact was documented in a threepenny pamphlet, The Germanisation of the New Testament, issued in England by the Friends of Europe, and circulated in the U. S. last week. In a foreword, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, of Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, estimated that one-tenth of Germany's Protestant pastors have defied the predominantly anti-Christian Nazi State and suffered the consequences. About two-thirds are lying low, hoping the storm will blow...
...with snouts) of Salt Lake City, great-granddaughter of the late much-married (approximately 25 wives) Mormon Brigham Young, recently won a Make-the-Most-of-Yourself contest sponsored by the fashion magazine, Mademoiselle. Like her competitors, 5,000 other plain young women, she submitted pictures, composed a 500-word essay on ''Why I Should Be Chosen To Be Made Over." Long of nose, mousy of hair, skinny of figure, Miss Foutz won with a frank letter showing no self-pity, frank pictures indicating need of makeover (see cut). Last week she went to Manhattan to receive...
...word, 23-page memorandum. Economist Berle ranged far and wide, played no favorites, outlined a program that might well keep the committee in session for at least a decade. "The investigation," he said, "should be essentially a search to find an organization of business that actually works...
When, after his shuddering seduction by his boss's wife, he is falsely accused of robbery, his family sends him to a private school in England. During his eight months there, he refuses to say a word-his comment on human trustworthiness. His only companion is a cretin who tries to swallow the silverware, drinks ink, knows only two sentences: "Don't worry" and "Right as rain." The night Ferdinand is leaving he is frenziedly seduced by the headmaster's wife, who then jumps in the harbor...