Word: beginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inactive of all Spanish fronts. Last week's offensive has changed all that, but there is still no trench system. Defense is a matter of individual strong points and gun emplacements among the rocky precipitous hills. From ten miles north of Huesca half way down to Teruel, trenches begin in earnest. They have been dug with great enthusiasm, in systems two and three lines deep, but with little science. Dugouts are improperly constructed, firesteps and proper bays are lacking, connecting trenches are generally at the wrong angle, but since there has been practically no action on this sector...
With Professor Burbank's announcement yesterday of the modifications in Tutorial instruc-the Economics Department is about to begin this into force, the lead which History gave in starting the "modified Tutorial" system had been followed, and indeed surpased. The developments which the Economics Departmen is about to begin this year are not epoch making, but they represent another step forward in the slow transition of the Tutorial System as it first existed at Harvard...
...iron in particular. He spoke in a modulated tone and his language was not strong, just very clear. Then the scrimmage recommenced and rapidly took on the aspect of a track meet. At its close, Harlow pronounced it a highly satisfactory workout. Nor are many more practices likely to begin sluggishly in the near future...
Work will begin immediately on Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", which is scheduled definitely for performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the spring. Not since 1927 has the Glee Club presented this composition, (this was on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death), nor had it been presented for many years prior to that...
...first president of the New England Mormon Mission. He found that some 3,000 New Englanders were already Latter-day Saints. President Eyring set up headquarters in a house in Cambridge, hired the old, staid Cantabrigia Club (women) for Sunday meetings. With him he brought 20 young missionaries to begin the work of evangelizing the new territory...