Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will have nothing to do with this crackbrained scheme . . . nebulous and ambiguous except for its clear implications that it would mean a tax and therefore higher prices on food and raw materials. ... It is regrettable that the most vocal member of the Opposition is so remarkably addicted to silence today." (Broad grin from Churchill...
Everybody learned except John who toddled after balls. In the summertime when famed tennis players came to play at tournaments in the clubs around Boston, the John Gorham Palfreys took their swarm of brown-haired, blue-eyed, wiry, sunburned children to the matches. On their own court they practiced what they had seen. In 1926, Elizabeth won the indoor doubles with Marjorie Morrill. Mrs. George Wightman, a resident of Brookline, holder of 31 national titles, came over in the afternoons to give them lessons. The Palfreys had learned by themselves those parts of the game that players not taught...
...world", as he terms them: "There is material in these spirituals worthy of use by our best composers. With their infinite variety of rhythm, their plaintive melodies and unusual harmonies, they can furnish inspiration for the highest music....The negro has been largely unable to express himself except in song. Perhaps that is why his music has such powerful appeal....I have termed this music noble, and I do so without any qualifications...
...regulation of the Committee on Admission, students transferring to the College and the Engineering School from other colleges and universities, will be admitted only to the freshman and sophomore classes at Harvard. The practice has been to admit men by transfer with any classification except that of Senior...
...form, even, if necessary or desirable, resurrect those "prayers" with which it was begun. Though, under existing circumstances, that cheerful custom of the "beever" is no longer possible, the seating of the members of the house, and even the "thanksgiving" would not seem to smack too much of "imitation"--except, perhaps, the imitation of the great past of Harvard College. It may, perhaps, be argued that the revival of these former practices has no more to recommend them than the resurrection of kneebreeches and shoe-buckles would have, but that argument is in a sense beside the point...