Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's faculty was excellent, and the students were advised to choose their courses by professors as much as by subject matter. William James was an instructor in physiology (NOT psychology), while James Russell Lowell taught English poetry. Informal discussions were initiated in order to bring the students into closer contact wit these figures...
...While they huddled over a charcoal fire, as the midnight gong beat out the old year, Akai San heard a scratching at the door. Outside, a shabby dog whined and howled. "Go away, mutt!" shouted Akai, but the dog waved his tail and, crawling on his belly, came even closer. Suddenly recognition came. "It's Fifty Bells!" shouted Akai, hugging the dog, while the family gathered in wonder...
Larry Kuter (rhymes with pewter), a lean West Pointer ('27), looked like just the man to carry out the Finletter Commission's prescription for a closer tie between the Government's military and civil air branches. Trained as a bomber pilot, he became a brigadier general at 36 (the Army's youngest). He got to be known as a "fair-haired boy" of General Hap Arnold, served as Assistant Chief of Air Staff, commanded a division of bombers in England, helped to plan and carry out the strategic bombings of Japan, was awarded the Distinguished Service...
Konitsa's Loyalist Colonel Valadas seemed to think that United Nations support was more of a hindrance than a help. "We are fighting this war with our hands tied," he complained. "Our soldiers are not allowed to get closer than two kilometers to the Albanian border, but we have to take losses from shellfire from guns across the frontier. We have to wait for the U.N. people to come and look through their field glasses and scribble down a note. That's a hell of a way to fight...
...resolution drawn up at yesterday's meeting, the left-of-center group said that "the current third party movement represents a retreat from really which may result in the election of a reactionary administration and brings closer the possibility...