Word: coops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kids ... so they can have a good time themselves. They know the kids will be picked up and taken care of. ... A man and wife will come in here to get a lost child. The wife will sit down and cry while the husband cleans the kid up. . . . The coops [on the beach where the lost children are first brought] are just wire. That gives everyone a chance to give you advice. 'Oh!' they'll yell at you. 'You don't know how to treat children; you just let them...
...final A. E. F. engagement?biggest in U.S. military history?occurred between the Argonne Forest and the Meuse River just west of Verdun. Foch's purpose was to drive the Germans back on the Ardennes Forest, coop them up, cut their rail communications to the western front. General Pershing had only two weeks to transfer his ist Army from St. Mihiel to this new sector and organize his attack. Many of his divisions were inexperienced in battle. Ahead of him lay rough, heavily fortified country...
...rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa Sig, and stocky James O. Harrison Simrall Jr., quarterback, captain of the 1930 football team, a Phi Delt, and two editors of the Michigan Daily were booked along with the rest...
...lack of intelligent, well prepared and constantly revised instruction can result only in mental sterility of the undergraduate body. Until promotions and appointments are based as much, and preferably a little more, on what the teacher has to offer his pupils, as on his imposing bibliography at the Harvard Coop, the first purpose of Harvard University is candidly ignored...
...theses were adjudged worthy of publication by a committee of the English Department last June and will be on sale at the Coop within the Dunster House Bookshop within a few days...