Word: returns
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...kind whom everyone has encountered: they do not protest their faith in democracy; they take it for granted. They vote, pay taxes and, if need be, march. For a week or two before elections they may get politically het up. But after an election is past, they quickly return to their normal attitude, which is both affectionate and aloof. Sure, they are for the President-he is their President, isn't he?-and of course they will still make up their own minds whether they like him and what he does...
...leave; slovenly dress, inattention to saluting . . . general inefficiency. . . . The successful leader must, first, have a thorough understanding on his own part of [these principles]. . . . Further, he must constantly keep in mind the twin objectives of the selective service law, i.e., 1) to train an adequate military force . . . 2) to return to civil life young Americans inculcated with a high sense of duty and patriotism...
After a scoreless first half Groton defeated its traditional rival St. mark's 20 to 6 in a very soggy game. Hugh Knowlton sparked the Grofonians, scoring two touchdowns, one a seventy-yard kickoff return...
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...
...soldiers, palaces, pomp. The death ride at Sarajevo (TIME, July 3, 1939), vividly reconstructed, includes such precise detail as the abortive attempt at assassination during the parade to the City Hall, the Archduke's angry retorts to the Mayor's friendly welcome, the confusion over changing the return route of the parade...