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Into the tangled web of international politics there burst yesterday a new factor of the utmost importance, namely the danger of war with the planet Mars. Completely dwarfing the petty Czechoslovakian quibble, this new terror drove deep into the panic-stricken hearts of Americans, uncovering in its violence a fundamental fact which no thinking person can afford to ignore: namely, America is a part of the universe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL'S WELLES THAT ENDS WELLS | 11/1/1938 | See Source »

...Frankly, I have been disturbed at various references in the press to the effect that I contemplated leaving Harvard. I assure you that I am most happy here and that I have had utmost cooperation from everyone connected with the University...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Team Acquires Self-Confidence and Poise In 26-7 Triumph Over Princeton Saturday | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...years the varsity squash team has been pursuing its way around courts that have varied more than two feet in dimension, and their need for the standard courts at Hemenway outweighs the burden on law students of an occasional five minute walk. Exercise for law students is of the utmost importance, but if six courts were expressly reserved for them at Linden Street, in addition to the six remaining courts at the Hemenway Gym, the varsity invasion would deprive them of nothing, not even their well-beloved jaunts to Linden Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER SQUASH | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...teaching his hens how to lay more eggs, promoting and installing a "quick-freezing" plant, making myself generally useful around the plantation and its office, and attempting to design a refinement for his alfalfa dehydrator. Twelve to 15 hours a day. seven days a week, each packed to the utmost with interesting activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Chamberlain and Daladier conducted themselves as dignified men of reason and intelligent representatives of nations prepared to fight to their utmost ability if necessary. Lesser men would have been tempted to again snare conceited, sentimental, weak-minded Uncle Sam under the claptrap against dictators and antireligion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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