Word: clings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dean Chauncey's clearing-house in University Hall, will attempt to make unaroused Harvardmen realize that "keeping calm" does not mean burying one's nose in a book or a stein of beer and forgetting that a war exists. Actually, of course, there are a few who still cling to kidding themselves, but so far the trouble has been that opportunities for volunteers were vague or non-existent; also many undergraduates or graduates felt that it would be impossible to fit any sort of work into days already overcrowded...
...their present national policy, and the Japanese believe that the prosperity and glory of their empire can only be derived from conquest this end they are ready to undergo privation and are ready to die. That is why there is no revolution in Japan and the people still cling together after four years of disastrous adventure in China...
Edicts still forbid the teaching of religion to children under 18, distribution of the Bible or church literature, any form of "religious propaganda." Yet even the League of the Militant Godless admits that millions of Russians (in 1936 it estimated half the total population) still cling to their Greek Orthodox faith...
...away in blood as the youth of Europe are being swept away, then is our last hope gone. So for our sakes as well as yours, for the sake of the world and all that it holds for the future of the race, keep your sanity, preserve your reason, cling fast to peace. John Haynes Holmes...
Either one of the first two stages may last for the duration of the student's Cambridge stay, be that three months or four years. Some very fine people have been known to start with Radcliffe and cling to it till graduation, and many of those have ended up graduating summa cum laude. And after a man has advanced to an advanced stage he may still drop back into a lesser period of development...