Word: disruptions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today is the first of the several end-of-the winter Saturday's in which Harvard atheistic teams tackle the Elis; the basketball and hockey teams have gone to New Haven to do their best to disrupt the equilibrium of the Bulldog's joyful Prom weekend, while here in Cambridge the Squash team will vie with the Elis, and the track team will run, throw or jump against them along with Cornell and Dartmouth...
...even meaningless. But this "routine" organization is important. It is only necessary to hark back two years to recall one slip between the cup and the lip, due to bad management. Then the Juniors counting the returns were at fault. But a hitch at any point is enough to disrupt and discredit he whole system of Senior Elections. The dissension, the damaged feelings; the howls of protest of two years ago should be sufficient reminder to each of the Committees concerned that theirs is a delicate task to be performed with care and good judgment...
Outside Quarrels. Plainly referring to the Franco-Belgian alliance which his royal words served virtually to disrupt last week, His Majesty said: "Any unilateral policy weakens our position abroad and excites, rightly or wrongly, a division at home. An alliance, even if it is purely defensive, does not achieve its purpose because, however prompt might be the aid from our ally, it would come only after an onslaught by an invading army which would be devastating. In any event, we should have to struggle single-handed against that onslaught...
...Norris. veteran of ten years in the House and 24 in the Senate, announced his desire for retirement. Relieved were Nebraska's regular Republicans to be thus rid of a man who, Republican in name only, had returned from Washington every six years to snatch their Senatorial nomination, disrupt their party ranks. Quickly and quietly they marshaled their forces, gave the Senatorial nomination to a longtime 100% Republican Representative, Robert G. Simmons, who had lost his House seat in the 1932 Democratic landslide...
...Loyalties" is the name of one of the lesser-known plays of John Galsworthy, now a movie, and it means the esprit de corps that binds together the gentlemen of England, in addition to another loyalty that tends to disrupt that union...