Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...names the Brown Shirts crowed. "Kikeriki! Kikeriki! Kikeriki!" -German equivalent to Cockadoodle-doo! (Fascists both German and Italian, hold that womgn are respectworthy as hens, jeerworthy when by entering politics they try t0 be roosters.) On tlie first day of the Reichstag session absolutely nothing was done except to call and jeer the roll...
...higher up were shattered by pistol shots. Jewish-owned cafés and banks suffered similar pane-smashes. So adroit was the whole piece of vandalism, so swiftly did the stonethrowers disperse, that when police arrived, frantically summoned by the Jewish store owners, there was nobody to be arrested except very large crowds of curious, innocent by- standers...
...favorite until late last night, meets the Crimson after having rolled up some of the largest scores in Big Green football history and having overwhelmed a none too weak Columbia team by a 52 to 0 score just last Saturday. The Indians come at full strength except at one position, left halfback, where injuries have laid up both Clark and Frigard. But otherwise the visitors are well fortified, especially in the line where Coach Jackson Cannell has gathered together one of the strongest forward walls in the East...
...finishes, waiting for the applause which is not to come, everyone wants to know where the joke is. They urge him to continue, assuring the youth that they are still listening and want him to finish. Of course he does not know what to say and usually does nothing except blush embarassingly. The dissatisfied listeners finally agree to let the new man have another chance on the following night, advising him, that he should have an extra good one then. Of course they do not really mean this but as the others rise and leave the room, the new member...
...faculty upholds liberalism to a point amounting almost to a fetish, where paternalism never rears its ugly head, and where a premium is placed on individual responsibility, the system of hour examinations is a paradox; a conflict between fine theory and actual practice. Since they mean nothing, their abolition, except possibly for the first year, would remove from Harvard another petty trace of secondary school education...