Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming on the heels of a Crimson editorial printed last April, the appointment of Stanley Salmen as assistant to the Board of Advisers remodels Harvard's worst fitting garment into a streamlined gown of 1938 vintage and escapes once and for all the accusation that large university is a "leveler" which drags brilliant students down to the standards of the average...
After 20 minutes, Franklin Roosevelt left the train. Photographers recorded the solemn occasion (see cut). It was announced that next day's White House press conference was cancelled lest anything the President might say be misunderstood in war-frightened Europe. The impression was that Washington expected the worst hourly, that Peace hung by a heartstring...
...France from Sultan Sidi Mohammed, who has nominal authority over the natives of French Morocco, Spanish Morocco, now in the hands of Spanish Rightists, and Tangier, came the pledge: "No matter what happens, if the worst comes to pass I can assure you that the Sultan of Morocco and all his subjects will align themselves at the side of France...
...afternoon last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sat in bland conclave with the Press. Deluged with questions about how the U. S. dollar and U. S. economy were faring in the worst war scare since 1914, he finally remarked: "I think we are proving to the world that the U. S. is the financial centre of the world and we can resist the kind of nervousness which people who have money are feeling at this time...
Eliot House, Winthrop House, and the Yard were the worst hit as far as loss of trees goes. Nine of the stately elms outside of Eliot House along Memorial Drive were prostrated, leaving a comparatively bare building. Over half of the poplars in the front circle were blown done. A scene of wreckage was the court between Gore and Standish Halls of Winthrop House, where all but three of the old willows went down. Fifteen trees in the Yard were uprooted or snapped off near the roots...