Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What kind of criteria will be set up is a subject for uninformed conjecture. The tenor of the words used in the statement would seem to imply that public figures to whom any unpleasant notoriety attaches, or who stand at the center of heated non-academic controversies will be banned from Harvard. The motive behind the establishment of this or any other standard would be to ward off possible unfavorable publicity. Certainly it could not be to prevent the perversion of students' minds...
...John Reed Society calls upon all students and Faculty members to protest this decision of the Corporation and stand by their rights at a meeting to be held Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock," the statement concluded...
Women have another advantage, according to Dr. Hardy, which enables them to stand cold better than men-"a thicker insulating layer of superficial tissue" (vulgar translation: blubber). This natural protection enables a naked woman to feel no colder in a cool room than a man with a light suit of clothes on.* Result of these superior adaptations both to heat and to cold is that the temperature range of the "comfort zone" is twice as wide for women...
...Arkansas Traveler. Like Oklahoma Wit Will Rogers, he belittled his own peculiarities by exaggerating those of others. Example: When a relative entered politics, said towering Opie Read: "He was so big that they didn't put him on a stump. They dug a hole for him to stand...
...weather: "My shoes in the wardrobe are wet, my clothes on their hangers wilt, the cough drops melt in the corked bottle, and the envelopes in the desk all seal themselves." Of servants there were five, among them a little native boy, one of whose chief duties was "to stand with his small bare feet apart and whistle fuzzily." Of household pets there were swarms, domestic and wild...