Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week bird lovers were again having a time. In the letters column of the Manchester Guardian, several correspondents described the belligerent tendency of male British bullfinches and chaffinches to attack their own reflections in windowpanes, incidentally disturbing the early morning slumber of human Britons. Nobody suggested shooting the noisemakers; the correspondents seemed to favor a mild deterrent-white paper stretched over the window to abolish reflection...
...Bulletin's undergraduate page is devoted to the coverage and interpretation of news affecting the undergraduate at the College. The column involves interpretation as well as reports of the news, since it represents the undergraduate's point of view...
...companion events, the Freshmen also won their second race of the season, boating Princeton and Yale in that order. Crimson Jayvees again failed to break into the win column when the junior lightweights trailed both Yale and Princeton across the finish-line in the third race...
...night after the election, until the small hours of the morning, Rome's people crowded around the column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price...
...that same year, at dawn on the day before Passover, six Nazi tanks and a column of infantry moved into the Warsaw ghetto. They were making a routine roundup for the concentration camps and gas chambers. They penetrated as far as the ghetto's main street. Suddenly, windows and doorways erupted fire; from the housetops, grenades and gasoline were hurled on the tanks. The infantry were decimated; the tank crews burned alive...