Word: consisting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competition will consist of work on the fields with the Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Freshman teams as well as some work in the locker rooms of these teams. The assignments of the competitors are so rotated from day to day that each gets an equal share of the work with each team...
...opening 36 pages consist of slum vignettes, gangrenous clinical talk and last-ditch confessions derived from Celine's medical practice in a Paris charity clinic. (He still clings to this job, which pays about $60 a month, although he has salted away some $25,000 in royalties.) These pages give readers a sickening jolt. But Celine's purpose is apparently to show that neither Ferdinand (his autobiographical main character) nor the world has improved since his boyhood...
...reach a truce, the Soviet Commissar and the Japanese Ambassador each made concessions. Mr. Shigemitsu gave up his original contention that the commission chosen to arbitrate the boundary should in fairness consist of one Japanese and one Manchukuoan for each Russian. He agreed to two Russians and two Japanese Manchukuoans. Mr. Litvinoff gave up his insistence that the agreement must specifically state that the boundary should be defined according to "maps bearing the signatures of official representatives of Russia & China." That point was left open. He further gave up his demand that the Japanese retire from the disputed territory before...
...movements of a pigeon deprived of thiamin "consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
...literary exercises, first event on the Class Day program, will consist of the delivery of the Class oration by Wiley E. Mayne of Sanborn, Iowa; the Class Ode, written by Morris Earle, of New York City, and sung to the tune of "Fair Harvard" under the direction of the Class Chorister, Robert W. Snyder, of Easton, Pennsylvania, and the Class Poem, by John S. Bainbridge, of New York City...