Word: cf
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Varsity soccer line-up for Saturday is: Penson, g; Ives, rfb; Oresman, lhb; Myerson, rhb; Edgar, chb; McCook, lhb; Willetts, ro; Murphy, rl; Calhoun, cf; Vorley, li; Herskovits...
Died. Daniela Thobe, about 80, granddaughter of the great Hungarian Composer Franz Liszt (1811-86), stepdaughter of the great German Composer Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-83); in Bayreuth, Germany. Daniela's father, Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bülow, was a stanch friend cf Wagner until his wife ran off with Wagner; and Daniela's half-brother was Wagner's illegitimate son, Siegfried...
...Dickensian characters in London are just a few shades more painful than the worst of Dickens; the court and military sequences in Paris suggest an expensive and uninspired Hollywood production cf War and Peace. When all is said & done the author overestimates the dignity of his romance by giving it an unsatisfactory ending...
...Leon Trotsky there was no mystery to the assault. It was just one more attempt on the part of the agents of his onetime colleague, Joseph Stalin, to rub him out. To the world at large, and the U. S. in particular, it was just one more piece cf evidence that a lot of people who are not Mexicans are desperately interested in what goes on in Mexico...
...involvement" is confined to a pro-Ally position. It is not true that the other position may represent "emotional involvement"? I offer in evidence Dr. Zipf's letter, using phrases such as "Benedict Arnolds," "despicable type of disloyalty," "educated fool," "copperheads," "hypocritical agitation under cover of the academic gown" (cf. the full text of his letter in the "Herald"). The unreflective emotional content of a verbal communication is often directly proportional to the number of such phrases and adjectives. Any appeal to reason is hindered by their use. This criticism, if valid, applies to Professor McLaughlin's communications as well...