Word: put
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...really got something there in her suggestion to sterilize every German. As a matter of humanity and for self-protection, the idea should be put into practice universally -at once. . . . We must sterilize not only the full Germans, but also everyone with as much as an eighth or sixteenth or even a thirty-second of German blood in his veins. Of course that might have to include several of the royal houses, but I am sure they would be only too glad to do their part in this great humanitarian enterprise...
Campaign bitterness can still be easily put aside by an effort of good sportsmanship, as was shown four years ago when anti-Roosevelt businessmen rallied generally to pledge cooperation to the man elected by the Democratic majority. That pledge did not prove lasting, and for a good reason: good sportsmanship may banish bitterness engendered in the brief heat of a campaign, but it cannot make men believe in things which they have come to distrust progressively over a period of years...
...Eleanor Roosevelt] is . . .a wonderful woman. And marvelously helpful and full of sympathy. . . . She bothered us more on our jobs in Washington to take care of the poor little nobodies . . . than all the rest of the people down there put together. She's always sending me a note to have some little Susie Glotz to tea at the Embassy...
...house. He decided to investigate. "I went up the fire escape and saw the bomb on the floor, so I picked it up and went down the stairs. I was going to dump the damn thing in St. James's Park, but it was very heavy so I put it down to rest for a moment. ... I laid it down beside a church which had already been damaged: I thought it the safest place-away from dwelling houses." Here police found him and arrested...
This year Eliot House will put out a year book for the first time. Homer Wick '42, has taken on his capable shoulders the job of editing it. He will be assisted by a willing group of House members, amateur camera fans, short story writers, and budding businessmen...