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...following list of scholarship winners in the Class of 1941 was prepared from records in the Dean's office. Mistakes in spelling may have crept into the CRIMSON'S copy. Nor at this date may the list be final...
...Millions of years ago a huge lava flow crept across south central Idaho, moving south, filling in canyons, leveling off the countryside. When the flow ceased, the upper crust cooled and hardened, while the lower lava continued flowing. Along the buried canyons the sub-lava flood tore out everything it could carry along, leaving vacant spaces roofed over by the cold crust. As the material weathered it began to collapse. This is now taking place on Robertson's farm...
...intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" Béla Kun resting harmlessly at a sanatorium not far from the Datcha of Stalin. He occupied an unimportant non-political post as head of the Social Economic Publishing House...
...hold Brunete, however desperate the cost. With the sky full of battling pursuit ships and lumbering bombers, Leftists and Rightists spent the week locked in combat, each giving the other all they had. Rightists first swept overwhelmingly forward to retake Brunete, then as the afternoon wore on Leftists crept forward, recaptured most of Brunete in a sunset onslaught and by dawn were stubbornly giving ground, battling bayonet to bayonet, with warcraft diving from the skies to machine-gun the struggling troops. This week the Leftists were forced to evacuate the village of Brunete which had been bombed, shelled, hand-grenaded...
...should not have written this because it has been a confidential matter between Mr. Coryell and myself (I fear he will not like my doing it) but already there has crept into the newspapers some word of what he has been doing for his alma mater and I think it is better to give you the facts correctly than have them possibly seep into your office somewhat distorted. N. C. ABBOTT Superintendent...