Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to assure those students of Harvard College who are opposed to the use of their money for the purpose of advocating publicly class war and murder, that we stand by our original charges, and that we will contine to fight those who exploit the name of Harvard for their own ends. Merwin K. Bart '40 Sidney Q. Curtiss...
Mitchell, who freezes his own back in Kentucky, proceeded to finish first in a cross country trial the day after his exploit. Said he, "It was nothing. I just kept on eating." The former record was 11 ice creams...
...lyrics of James Joyce (see above), U. S. readers last week could compare a noted poem in a professionally heartbroken tradition. Ballads in the styles called cante hondo and cante flamenco had been made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament for Ignacio...
...small-town English G. P. (general practitioner) who does everything from confinements to corn-cutting has no time, soon no desire, to keep up-to-date. The medical bigwigs are smothered in red tape. Worst of all, perhaps, are the specialists- typified by the word "Harley Street"- who exploit the rich, scratch one another's backs to their mutual profit, in some cases make fortunes on the side by performing hush-hush abortions for careless socialites...
...being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...