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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...these details emerged, the Yale Record broke off relations with the News, described the proposed celebration as "a raw and vulgar exhibition." The Smith College Scan printed a bitter editorial. Miss Juliana Cutting, a Manhattan social secretary, wired: "SORRY, NEVER HEARD OF SADIE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sadie Hawkins at Yale | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...front row saw all the sure signs that the President was waiting to spring something -he pursed his lips, stretched his big cheeks and rolled his tongue against them as he stared at the ceiling-an omen from which Washington newsmen deduce the Presidential mood as fishermen scan the sky for breaks in the weather. A blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three schools-"three at once."Quickly Steve Early corrected him: "At a quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Getting Restless | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cross Country Squire | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly to handicraft and dentistry as something that the boys can put their fingers on. If Harvard fears that, as a liberal arts college, it has suffered shipwreck, it can still scan the horizon for a savior before dropping to the bottom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIGHT THAT FAILED | 3/21/1940 | See Source »

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