Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Book-Register-yearbook snarl came no closer to solution last night after a four-hour conference between the major participants in the case...
Hurley sweated over his docile pupil. He put hobbles on Foster to make him keep his legs closer together, made chalk marks on the floor to show him where to put his feet. "The whole secret of fighting is balance and leverage," Hurley kept saying. Foster kept on looking perplexed...
Even supposing that no agreement whatsoever comes out of the foreign ministers conference, the end of the Berlin blockade and its tensions is welcome, of course. This crisis has lasted 11 months: during that time, the West has drawn closer together, and in Europe, at least, has been more successful than not in the struggle for recovery. But Europe, divided, hostile, and unhappy, has felt little joy at any "victory" for either side in the war of nerves. The re-opening of the German question can conceivably lead to a cautious resolution of East-West conflict in Europe...
Employment: The Committee has recommended there be closer coordination between the work of the Scholarship Office and the Student Employment Office. We have begun a search for part-time jobs within the University which can be assigned to undergraduates. It seems certain that during its summer meetings on upper-class scholarship applications, the Scholarship Committee will recommend a list of upperclassmen to receive special consideration in the assignment of jobs by the Student Employment Office...
None of the nine matches were runaways for the Red and Gray, except for the unusually slippery Exeter courts, the freshmen might easily have made the contest closer...