Word: acad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Napoleon had judged human nature right, France now gives 25 kinds of civilian decorations,* medals (and lapel ribbons) for rearing big families, turning out a good beet crop, running a business-like prison, doing an average job of teaching school (about half of all French teachers have the Palmes Académiques), putting out fires, collecting taxes...
...They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists, the general directories, the telephone directories, and the membership lists of the Académic, the Shakespeare societies, and the Goethe-Verein...
HOCKEY Varsity 5Yale 2 BASKETBALL Varsity 27 Princeton 33 Freshmen 35 St. George's 26 Junior Varsity 17 Bridgewater 12 BOXING Varsity 41/2 Coast Guard Acad. 31/2 FENCING Freshmen 14 M.I.T. '39 8 POLO Varsity 101/2 Connewood 81/2 Freshmen 2 Battery A 4 SQUASH Freshmen 4 Yale '39 1 Freshmen 232/3 Andover 571/2 SWIMMING Varsity 56 Brown 15 Freshmen 45 Brown '39 28 WRESTLING Varsity 9 Princeton 15 TRACK Varsity A 7 Yale...
Score--Harvard 3, Worcester Acad...
Even the hoary savants of the Académie Française felt the danger of provoking an internal French crisis by taking steps against Italian Fascism to be so acute that a dozen of them manifestoed: "It is with stupefaction that we see the [British] people whose vast colonial empire includes one-fifth of the Earth appearing in opposition to young Italy's justifiable enterprise. . . . The League of Nations must not commit the folly of dealing with a civilized nation [Italy] and a barbarous nation [Ethiopia] on the same footing. . . . The risk must not be run of plunging...