Word: winning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia Won't Lot Nazis Win...
...reverse assumption is as alien to basic American concepts as the wanton attack on the participants in the Foster meeting. The most refreshing contrast to this Cambridge ban is the editorial criticism levelled by the Harvard Crimson against the university authorities. What the Communists say these days will probably win them few converts. But the kind of intolerance to which Harvard has given academic sanction can develop into something ugly and uncontrollable. It did in Detroit. --The Nation
There is your chance for a good cheap weekend. Pay $3.50 for a couple ticket to the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Hotel Somerset; invite a beautiful girl in a blue or red dress and let her win two tickets to the game for you; and then win two seats for the Saturday night production of "DuBarry was a Lady...
...completely unathletic. "Ring Lardner once told me that the only exercise he got was when he took the links out of one shirt and put them in another. That goes for me too." He does play croquet, however-with a fierce desire to win, as he plays parlor games and bridge. Called by Ely Culbertson "the best amateur bridge player in the U. S.," he hates playing with his dub friends, tackles the experts without getting hurt, peppers the game with such comments as "I'd like a review of the bidding, with the original inflections...
...Poland is to rise again, Potocki knows that his work has just begun. Physically destroyed, Poland still flourishes in the hearts of its people. If the Allies should win, will Poland be reconstructed as in 1918? And if the Allies should lose . . . if . . . if . . . ? The Vagabond knows that the answers are far away, but he will get some clue to them from Count Potocki today at 4 o'clock in Emerson...