Word: yesterday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies of the world which observe the sanctity of treaties . . . cannot safely be indifferent to international lawlessness anywhere. Acts of aggression . . . automatically undermine...
...these things came about; and last Monday was a big day in college football, as well as in top-notch high school circles. Yesterday, however, two victors in Rose Bowl play, Tennessee and Texas Christian, were asked to compete in another game for a "World's Fair" trophy and free rides on the Ferris Wheels...
Earlier this month the Star omitted "My Day" by Eleanor Roosevelt, printed a curt paragraph explaining that "a visit Mrs. Roosevelt made yesterday to a reptile farm in Sarasota, Fla., contained no information the Star believes its readers would enjoy. . . ." Not until last week did Mrs. Roosevelt learn the reason her column was dropped-the Star's old snake taboo. She had devoted a paragraph to telling how rattlers and moccasins are "milked" for medical purposes...
Copeland, Kittredge, Lake and now Lowest. They are names that every schoolboy knows, men who were only yesterday seen in the Yard, men with little green bags and little eccentricities of dress and speech, men whom undergraduates knew as men, but to the class that enters in the fall, and for many years to come, they will just be "authorities" with which to pad a bibliography. Their books can be brought in Boston or Bombay; they themselves are no longer the unique offering of Harvard...
...Board is facing a crists because the vigorous and determined movement to "emasculate" the act which set it up is being met by a wearied and weakened defense, said Dr. J. Raymond Walsh, former instructor in Economics, in a speech sponsored by the Teachers Union, at Phillips Brooks House yesterday...