Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girls not only stand out as distinct individuals but also mature in the course of the volume. At points the intimate realism in describing Flip's artistic ambitions, her crush on Professor Brooks Creighton, and her feeling of estrangement from the life at home, approaches the bitter dissection of college life in Wolfe's "Look Homeward, Angel"-though Miss Carrick's approach lacks his sweeping inclusiveness and turgid power. Her polished style and delicate portrayal temperament are more in the urbane manner of Willa Cather. Only the concluding chapter betrays a novice hand. The threads of the plot, unsnarled...
...year was the heart-breaker they lost to Leverett when Lady Luck tipped a Bunny conversion kick over the cross-bar for the one-point margin of victory. The Gold Coasters, on the other hand, opened their campaign unimpressively, losing to Dunster 6 to 0, but roused itself to crush the Ramblers 16-0 last week...
While the number of signatures to a petition condemning the Neutrality Act approached one third of the undergraduate body, three interventionist committees that differ in little but name made last-minute preparations yesterday for a jointly-sponsored "crush Hitler" rally in Sever 11 at noon...
...already been dammed up. The second would be the country of Muscovy, where a second great mass would be isolated. The third would be the Ukraine and the Caucasus, where the rest of Russia's hope would be boxed. Three little armies would be far easier to crush, one by one, than one big one. Adolf Hitler would once again have accomplished his old, old strategy: Divide & Ruin...
Another time limit weighs upon Tokyo. It is set by U.S. aid to China, trickling now, rising steadily, destined to rise & rise. Before that stream of aid becomes a torrent the Japanese must crush Chiang Kai-shek's armies or face defeat...