Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apoplectic British veterans, who proudly call themselves the "Old Contemptibles," could be heard vowing in their British clubs last week that in the next war there must be no sending of "New Contemptibles...
Those few benighted souls who were still in Cambridge at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon were startled by the steady drone of what sounded like a mammoth fire siren, a signal for an air raid, or perhaps even a recruiting call for the next war. Puzzled students wondered where the fire was and how big it must have been to evoke such an awe-inspiring noise...
...great catastrophe was in the offing, after all. At 6:30, when the blast had been going forty-five minutes, a phone call to the Cambridge police evoked the information that the noise "was just some engineer's locomotive whistle over in Brighton that's got stuck." Promptly at 6:32 o'clock it apologetically stopped...
...ranked as an instructor. In his comparatively brief career at Harvard he turned out only a handful of students. A smaller handful still will ever be what some of his colleagues would call men of letters. But even in his short time he made English 31, or whatever they call it now, clearly the best composition course Harvard has had for many years. Any qualified person will tell you, moreover, that in the field of American literature Mr. De Voto's ability can be equalled only with difficulty. I cannot believe that Harvard does not know what everyone knows...
Back from the football field with a sad eye and a heavy heart. But, Lord, how the players in our camp did fight! Methinks it ungentlemanly bold to call it "moral victory", but the soldiers of Harvard worked with each other like the very wheels of a parlor clock. In the stadium came into my head the words...