Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peeks. At its worst, the Fair's nudity is so much peeping tommyrot. Unalluring are the Arctic Girls, frozen inside cakes of ice. Twittering and skipping about with bows & arrows, the droopy Amazons provide a mere comic-strip-tease. NTG's frightened-looking Sun Worshippers make customers the victims of a skin game...
...When the democracies accuse us of lack of political morality, it is because they have history behind them while we stand before ours-and youth is usually more immoral than old age. An old proverb says that the worst prostitutes become the most devout deaconesses in old age-and it is the same way in politics...
...worst thing about the situation is that it seems to represent the fruit of what Mr. Conant once called his "basic policy." Just what the basis of this policy is we are not quite sure. If it is solicitude for the tribulations of young faculty men which has led him to accept the Committee of Eight's suggestion that the rank of assistant professor be eliminated, did the President have to move with speed that was never anticipated by that Committee? If budgetary difficulties complicate the situation, why does he not adopt the Committee's suggestions for a more flexible...
...horror of the Squalus' loss of the men in her flooded aft was mitigated by the rescue of the 33 survivors. There was no grain of satisfaction for the British public in the Thetis disaster, worst in submarine history. There were just two cold epitaphs. "Chlorine gas fumes," said a British medical authority, "in a confined space like the interior of a submerged submarine, would cause early asphyxiation, immediately preceded by loss of consciousness." And over the spot in the Irish Sea where the submarine rested, there floated a new green buoy on whose side was freshly painted...
...when he settles down to read this commentary on Harvard life--entitled, incidentally, "Out of the Bellglass"--he may be a little startled. For he will see what attempts to be a portrait of himself and what is indeed a caricature at best, an effigy at worst...