Word: battallion
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...students had little trouble gaining access to Massachusetts Hall, but a battallion of secretaries blocked them from seeing the birthday boy. No, they were told, they could not hand-deliver the cake. Disappointed, they trio left the cake with a birthday card and returned to the dorm...
...visitors played alert, hustling basketball all the way, braving the combined forces of a smooth, poised Tiger squad and a raucous battallion of Tiger fans, most of them members of Cannon Club, one of the Big Five on Princeton's tree-lined Prospect...
Thomas C. Simons, Eliot House; Advertising Manager, Crimson; Freshman Cross Country; Eliot House Com; Chairman, House Dance Com; Business Manager, Crimson; Battallion Commander, Naval ROTC, Harvard...
...guns will be kept at the armory in Memorial Hall, where battallion units will secure them and return them before and after every drill. Exempt from carrying the rifles are platoon, company, and battalion officers as well as members of the regimental staff...
...time. Of course, at night there is an excuse and all except a few of the gates must be kept closed so that all entrances can be adequately watched by the plain-clothes men, but in the broader light of day there is no reason why the battallion of janitors who foregather in the basement of Harvard Hall should not shoulder their rusty keys and throw wide all the gates. The portals that are now life unlocked usually have one gate sadly ajar, making it necessary to wedge one's way in or squirm through surreptiously. The conditions...