Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patently absurd that, because of a mere administrative detail, the so-called University squash courts should be included in the regular H.A.A. ticket while the House courts require an additional fee. There is little to be gained by forcing members of the Houses to desert the squash facilities that have been provided for them-for the majority would do this rather than pay duplicate charges. Since, then, there would be no financial loss involved, the new participation ticket should be extended to include the House courts. The present $3 ticket should, of course, be retained for the benefit of those...
...Press, obliged to rave at somebody, raved against Danzig's onetime Nazi Premier Dr. Rauschning who appealed last week for anti-Nazi votes. When Danzig Nazi gangsters threatened to beat up Dr. Rauschning and he stepped over the border into Poland the German Official News Agency reported "RATS DESERT A SINKING SHIP. Rauschning is no longer to be found in Danzig. He is just full of treason...
Kirkland started off badly as Harvard's "social desert." First thing the Dean's Office did when it began Housing freshmen was to induce a big group of young socialites (including Theodore Roosevelt III) to pioneer in Kirkland. After one year most of them (including Theodore Roosevelt III) moved out. Today most of Kirkland's residents come out of public schools...
...Fortnight ago Wiley Post set out from Los Angeles in the Winnie Mae on what was to be a 400-m.p.h. 7-hr. nonstop flight to New York in the substratosphere. An hour later an overheated engine forced him down in the desert some 100 mi. from Los Angeles. Last week, his eye blazing with indignation, Pilot Post told newshawks two pounds of metal filings, emery dust and other abrasive foreign matter had been found in his engine, had ostensibly been put there by an ill-wisher...
...month of the same year: April, 1616), Cervantes lived an adventurous life, never attained comfort or respectability. Though the Spain of his day was mistress of the world, it was the most impoverished country of Europe. The stream of gold from Spain's empire poured uselessly into the desert of Philip II's fanatical schemes and such poor devils as Cervantes got never a drop. As a young man with no future, he jumped at the chance of getting out of Spain, going to Rome as Spanish teacher to a Papal legate. There, for something else...