Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revolutionary spirit of John Reed '10 may not be dead. About 40 undergraduates have responded to a recent call for volunteers to fight the rebel cause in Tibet...
...Plans call for a small "contact group" to depart for the Far East soon in order to rendezvous with "cetain persons" and investigate the possibilities of crossing the Tibetan border and collecting arms stores...
...call a primary strike all across the nation that will straighten out the employers for once...
...Anthropology 1. The other type of exhibit is the highly specialized one, the sort of showing that only a very careful general observer could understand. These are designed as study aids for graduate courses and fill the smaller rooms. Their highly technical explanations of what the public would call boring stuff are essential to the training of specialists...
Turf in the Tenement. Perhaps the book's most appealing episode is the horse-racing fantasy-for Jack Duluoz, like any right-thinking Massachusetts twelve-year-old, is a track addict. In the Duluoz tenement, on dark winter mornings, Jack scribbles out racing forms, plays the call to colors on the Victrola, stages elaborate handicap races with marbles ("I owned that great Repulsion, also personally rode the beast, and trained him . . . also ran the Turf, was Commissioner, Track Handicapper, President of the Racing Association, Secretary of the Treasury...