Word: carded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Changes in a programme for 1933-34 may be made in September on the study card to be filled out at registration...
There is a system of "Advisers," whereby each student is assigned to a member of the faculty during his undergraduate life. However, with one or two notable exceptions, a man's adviser never sees him except for a moment or two when a study card is to be signed. And even that time may be omitted if the adviser is too busy to be seen. Ordinarily, the adviser never figures in a man's plans for the year's work...
...floor two mice nibble every morning at a piece of sugar set out for them by one Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born veteran of the Imperial German Army, wounded, gassed, Iron Crossed. Six other men as obscure as himself suggest that he join their German Labor Party, give him Membership Card No. 7, written in longhand. Meeting on Wednesday, the Executive Committee of the Party elect No. 7 their Chief of Propaganda, are amazed when he rounds up a meeting of 130, flabbergasted when he sweeps all before him with a loose but passionate 20-min. speech bursting with personal magnetism...
Although almost all the merchants in Harvard Square are advertising today that they will extend credit and honor checks when presented with Bursar's card, the bootleggers in the vicinity demand honest-to-goodness money. The H.A.A. has announced that they will take checks for tickets for the hockey game with Yale tonight, but seven out of ten "importers and exporters" refused to supply beverages for checks. They seemed to oppose it on the grounds that it was not straightforward business. Three local dispensers were even willing to have charge accounts opened, although insisting on a personal interview first...
...tone of the 1870's. Very naturally, the effect of this attitude and the forms of action it has taken, has been to strengthen the extreme nationalist party on the one hand, and the extreme radical party on the other. Resentment against France has given the Nazis their strong card; and the desperate economic condition of the country, in large part brought on and prolonged by Versailles and succeeding treaties of extraction, has fostered the growth of the Communist party. The rise of these Marxists in turn has handed the Nazis their other ace: the role of defenders...