Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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When the Yardlings were good, they looked like and eleven with a future, but when they weren't clicking, they seemed to provide a perfect example of what some Boston sportswriters have been saying about Harvard football most of this fall. For five minutes at the very beginning the Freshmen seemed powerful and well coordinated. Again just before the half they staged a drive which the half-time whistle cut short on the Indian 11: And Chief Boston's men were going strong at the very end of the game. Except for these sparks of talent, however, the picture...
Andre Morize, professor of French Literature, who came back to Harvard this fall after spending a year in the French Bureau of North American Propaganda, makes his first appearance tonight since his return. He will speak at the War Relief Drive's initial meeting in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock...
...year of headlines, we over here have become inured to its details. Night bombings are no longer so scusational as they were in August. The invasion of Greece seems like old stuff. We tend to forget that each hour of bombing causes more loss of property than the fall of the Tacoma bridge. The phrase "severe damage to personnel." so carelessly bandied around by newspaper strategists, actually means that more blood has been poured onto the soil of Europe...
...Always action; inaction is conservatism, stagnation, unAmerican. Biographer Ernest Lindley described his as "the type of mind to which little is impossible and nothing inevitable." To be a great President he would have to try and try again for national unity of purpose, letting disagreements over details, methods, means fall where they might. He had long ago learned the prime art of the Presidency: persuasion. He had learned what every President must learn, the reason no President can become a dictator: he can never gain any major end by pressing a button, or issuing an order. Always, eternally, he must...
London and the spirit world, and as revealed by Mr. Pressing's recording, proved him a man of culture, if no great originality. Said Moon Trail: "Learning is living. . . . Every soul is a brick in the mosaic of the universe. If one were lost the universe would fall." In pursuit of the psychic chums of Moon Trail, and determined to make more of the loquacious defunct talk, Spiritualist Pressing last September corralled another batch of earnest mediums, went to the Buffalo, N. Y. offices of Transtudio Corp., a commercial radio-transcription studio. A medium soon got through...